Too Far Away (Zu weit weg), German Film with English subtitles

Film | 📅Tuesday, 2 June 2026, ⏰7pm | 📍Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kasturba Gandhi Marg | 🎟️Register

Date and Time: Tuesday, 2 June 2026, 7pm

Film Duration: 1 hour 29 mins 

 

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Venue: Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001, India

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Event Description: Too Far Away (Zu weit weg), German Film with English subtitles

Twelve-year-old Ben and his family are forced to leave their home because their village is being cleared to make way for a lignite mine. They find a new home in the neighboring village, but Ben has a hard time adjusting because he’s an outsider at his new school and gets teased. He only feels at ease when he’s playing soccer, his great passion. But trouble looms here too, because Tariq (a refugee from Syria and also new to the village), joins the team and outshines Ben on the field. After some initial resistance, however, the two soon realize they have more in common than they think, since they’ve both lost their homes. And when Ben learns that Tariq was separated from his family while fleeing, he decides to take his mind off things and brings him to his family’s abandoned house...

Director: Sarah Winkenstette

Year: 2019

About the Curator: One-time advertising writer, Vani Subramanian has been a feminist activist and documentary filmmaker since the nineties.

Her work as a filmmaker explores the connections between our everyday practices, perceptions and prejudices, and the larger political questions confronting us through the lens of everyday practices, perceptions and prejudices – be it about gender and space, sex selective abortions, sectarian intolerance, education, food practices, cinema spectatorship and culture, neighbourhood histories and memory, or justice and the death penalty.

Vani's films have been screened and received awards, both nationally and internationally. Over the years, she has extended her practice to video art in performance, mixed media installations and pop-up digital art shows.

She is also the Creative Director of reFrame Institute of Art and Expression, an initiative that produces, mentors and disseminates artistic efforts that respond to contemporary challenges.

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