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April 24, 2024

'Tigermilk': A film about friendship, life - and Berlin

Sometimes the music can not be loud enough to stop hearing life.

Anyone else here who would initiate a movie about life with this sentence?

Then you could try "tiger milk" - a cocktail of milk, passion fruit juice and brandy, preferably mariacron. And a movie about two 14-year-old girls in Berlin who are sure that they will forever be friends and drink together tiger milk from an Iced Coffee-To-Go mug.The two are called Jameelah and Nini and know what it means to be fucked by life.

Nini (Flora Li Thiemann) has after the separation of her parents only a card from her father, which says: "Do it like the sundial, count the merry hours only." Her mother is mostly - hypnotized by the drama of some scripted reality shows - on the couch, and her pubescent stepsister has a Eierlikörproblem.

If there is no human rights, you will not die because you did something bad, but because nobody protects you. "

Jameelah (Emily Kusche) is best in class in German, but still has to study for the naturalization test so that she will not be sent back to the country with her Iraqi passport by "building houses of camel shit."

She has a childhood memory in which she sees two rabbits in the bin that are still alive and then killed by her cousin. Her father and brother were murdered one day when she came home. Because "if there are no human rights, you will not die because you did something bad, but because nobody protects you."

Above the rooftops of Berlin: Nini (Flora Li Thiemann) and Jameelah (Emily Kusche) drink their special cocktail "Tigermilch"

Of course, both girls live in Berlin Problemkiez. Where in the neighboring apartment the whole night is screaming and arguing, because the daughter pollutes the Bosnian family honor by rummaging with a Serb.

The two are heroines, not victims!

But is everything half as wild? It's a summer break, with a party, swimming pool, ice cream and DEFLORATION. The right guys are already selected. And with all the shit that goes off, there are also good things, for example, "that in the summer before the shops water for the dogs".

The two heroines do not even think to see themselves in the role of socially disadvantaged victims. Life is too short for self-pity - and a movie even more! Fortunately, director Ute Wieland tells us no Depri story, but one of friendship, courage and zest for life.

Because even if we do not live in Problemkiez: Life fucks us all times, and we can not do anything about it. We can only stretch out a fist, band together and turn the music louder.