Ninja Motherf*cking Destruction

A film by Lotta Schwerk. Showing at the fsk from 16 July.

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A long-term cinematic study that follows Leonie’s coming of age over eight years: Leonie and Marlene are 18 years old, best friends, and convinced that nothing can separate them. But Leonie falls in love with Naomi, devotes herself entirely to her great love, and drifts further and further away from Marlene. Over time, it becomes clear that Naomi suffers from depression, which increasingly overwhelms Leonie. It is only when the relationship finally breaks down that Leonie realises just how much she has isolated herself. She leaves Berlin and begins an apprenticeship as a gardener in Brandenburg, which helps her to make sense of the world around her once more. With newfound strength, she plucks up the courage to reach out to her childhood friend Marlene after years of estrangement.
“When I began shooting this film in 2017, I longed for a space in cinema where a young female or queer body could grow up free from the male gaze during the vulnerable period between the ages of 18 and 25. ‘Ninja Motherf*cking Destruction’ is a film about intimacy, about sexuality and about bodies that change over the course of eight years. And about the loving, painful, ambivalent web of relationships between (queer) women.”
Lotta Schwerk

Credits:

DE 2025 79 mins, German with English subtitles,
Director: Lotta Schwerk
Cinematography: Fion Mutert
Starring: Emma Suthe, Marie Tragousti, Merle von Mach, Yildiz Tiryakioglu

Trailer:

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