Eine andere Liga

The tragicomic story of the 20-year old German Turk Hayat (Karoline Herfurth), a passionate and ambitious football player who suddenly finds herself off sides through a sudden confrontation with death: she has cancer and loses a breast. After her release from the hospital, she slowly tries to find her way back into life. Her apprenticeship exam as a goldsmith is nearing and she wants to catch up on her football training. Hayat’s worried father Baba – Can (Thierry van Werveke), whom she has been living with since her mother’s early death, has cancelled her membership with her old team. But he hasn’t considered his daughter’s stubbornness because Hayat is convinced her way back to life can only lead over a football pitch. Secretly she starts training with the ragtag women’s team of the FC Schanze…

Festivals & Awards

Audience Award at the Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2005, Audience Award/Bernhard-Wicki-Award at the Film Festival Emden 2005, Audience Award at the Filmkunstmesse Leipzig 2005, Honorary Mention at the Biberacher Filmfestspielen 2005, Film Festival de la Comédie in Monte-Carlo: Best Actor (Ken Duken) and Best Screenplay, Juliane Bartel Award 2007, nomination for the 44th Adolf-Grimme-Preis 2008 in the section Fiction/Spezial