Eleven-year-old Mona (Dileyla Agirman) fled Syria with her Kurdish family and goes to a school in Wedding in Berlin. Mona doesn’t know a word of German, but she can speak football. The dedicated teacher Mr. Chepovsky (Andreas Döhler), or Mr. Che for short, recognizes her extraordinary talent and accepts her into the girls’ team. Mona is a fighter, but soon realizes that only if she and the other girls play together can they be winners.
SIEGER SEIN is produced by DCM together with Boje Buck and is scheduled to be released in cinemas in the first quarter of 2024. SIEGER SEIN is supported and accompanied from the first steps of development by the SPECIAL CHILDREN’S FILM initiative. As part of this, MDR, SWR and WDR are on board as co-producing broadcasters.