Foreign Language

Plot

Fanny, a shy and lonely teenager, goes on a language exchange to Germany. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal, Lena, a teenager eager to become politically active. Fanny is troubled. To win over Lena, she invents a life for herself, to the extent of becoming trapped in her lies.

About Foreign Language

Langue étrangère (German: Fremdsprache) is a 2024 tragicomedy co-written and directed by Claire Burger. The film starring Lilith Grasmug and Josefa Heinsius is about a French teenager who visits her pen pal from Germany of the same age and falls in love with her. The European co-production among France, Germany and Belgium was selected in the Competition at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Bear with its first screening on 19 February at Berlinale Palast.

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