Turkish for Beginners

Lena Schneider doesn't have it easy. Frustrated by her life and "traumatized" by an anti-authoritarian upbringing, she is compelled by her mother Doris, a psychotherapist and teenage wannabe, to vacation in Southeast Asia. Her worst fear comes true during her flight - she is seated next to Cem Öztürk, a walking bundle of testosterone. It's a clash of German emancipation and Turkish machismo. As if it couldn't get any worse, their plane makes an emergency water landing. Lena now finds herself stranded on a deserted island with Cem, his devoutly religious sister Yagmur and a stuttering Greek, Costa. While they come to blows in this paradise, at a hotel Doris meets Metin Öztürk, the conventional-bourgeois father who is also in search for his children. (Berlinale)