PANOPTICON

18-year-old Sandro lives with his atheist grandmother. His deeply religious father wants to join a monastery to become a monk and his mother is abroad. Largely left to his own devices, Sandro is completely insecure – not least sexually. His inability to find his moral bearings soon puts a strain on his relationship with his girlfriend Tina. He becomes susceptible to dangerous ideologies. Only when Sandro meets Natalia, the mother of a new friend from his soccer team, does a door seem to slowly open up for him.
A character study of a young man’s problems gradually becomes a portrait of an entire society in this intelligent, multi-layered, and always surprising film about a society caught in a struggle between ultra-conservativism and progressive ideas.