Buchpremiere Fatima Daas in Berlin

In the organizer's words:

Fatima Daas is a guest at the Institut français Berlin with her new book "Spiel das Spiel" - for an evening together at Cinéma Paris, in conversation with Fatma Aydemir and translated by Milena Adam. Aysima Ergün will read the German passages.

"Fatima Daas writes about the price of social advancement, about the game of power - with a language that hurts: clear, to the point and honest." Deniz Utlu

Kayden is never alone: at home, her mother and big sister are always by her side. At school, there are her friends: Nelly, the sportswoman, Samy, the dreamer, and Djenna, who never lets anyone fool her. Kayden observes how everyone is looking for their place in a rigid system. She writes down what she sees - and what she doesn't see.

One day, Madame Fontaine, the strict French teacher at her new school, reads one of her texts. A door opens, she senses: Kayden will be the next to pass the entrance exam for the elite Sciences Po university. Kayden doesn't know if that's what she wants; what she wants is to spend time with her teacher. Only much too late does she realize the imbalance in their relationship - that Mme Fontaine plays by different rules than she does.

Fatima Daas tells a powerful and haunting story of close homes and even closer friendships, of solidarity and racism - and of the narrow ideas that institutions have of young people from the banlieue. Does Kayden have to play the game - or can she change it?