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Forbidden Zone

A Young Man with High Potential

Linus de PAOLI

Germany201885min Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

When the brilliant but sexually inexperienced computer science student Piet is turned down by bright and beautiful Klara, he is deeply hurt. He takes a dose of a sleep medication, leading to a tumultuous night during which he loses his innocence in more ways than one.

Program Note

Linus de Paoli’s controversial character study of a weak-willed social outcast Piet, portrayed convincingly by Adam Ild Rohweder, is sympathetic towards his misfortunes towards women, yet such sympathy cannot obscure his subsequent actions and consequences that require high degree of endurance for the viewers and is not for those with feeble hearts. (Jongsuk Thomas NAM)