Preview: Paternal Leave | Yorck Kinos Berlin

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Preview: Paternal Leave

Followed by a Q&A with director Alissa Jung

Sunday, 23.11.2025

17:30

Yorck

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For European Cinema Day 2025, we are looking forward to a preview of PATERNAL LEAVE, a moving father-daughter drama about responsibility and neglect. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Alissa Jung.

About

Alone and angry, a teenager travels to the coast of northern Italy to meet her biological father. On the beaches of Emilia-Romagna’s Riviera, deserted in winter, the girl meets him for the first time. Their encounter is fraught with questions, longing and conflict, as they struggle for acceptance, love, and honesty. It’s a difficult and complicated reckoning between the choices of the past and its repercussions on the present.

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