Punching the World
Once a month, the Goethe-Institut collaborates with the Cinémathèque québécoise to present a significant work of contemporary German cinema: fiction films, documentaries, bold and entertaining productions by established and emerging filmmakers.
Philipp and Tobias grow up in the province of Saxony. Their childhood is marked by a lack of prospects in an otherwise vast landscape. Years later, when their hometown is to take in refugees, the situation escalates. While one brother withdraws into himself, the other seeks an outlet for his rage. And finds it. Punching the World is the adaptation of the highly acclaimed novel by Lukas Rietzschel.
Constanze Klaue
Constanze Klaue was born in East Berlin and first studied German Language and Literature in Dresden and Jazz Music in Cologne and Osnabrück. She then worked as a writer, copywriter and director for an advertising production company in Cologne, before going to the Academy of Media Arts in 2014 to devote herself entirely to filmmaking. As a freelance writer and director, she writes and directs for film, music and literature alike. Punching the World (2025) is her feature film debut.
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