‘But through shows, YouTube and school english the switch went without much of a hitch and added a new challenge.’
‘It was different than planned,’ group leader Dominic Liebschwager told German website. It was planned to be an all-German production – until Noah Hutchinson, a US exchange student, joined the team, and everyone switched to speaking English. Produced by Come In, a youth group in the city of Magdeburg in former East Germany, he film is the result of a filmmaking workshop with LGBTI media project Queerblick. To make matters worse, his brother walks in on the boys and later threatens David to out him. They fall in love, but while Sam is out to his parents, David isn’t. Geliebter Sam (Beloved Sam) tells the story of David and American exchange student Sam, who meet at a youth group. For many LGBTI teens youth groups are not just about getting support, but also about finding friends or a potential Mr (or Mrs, or Mx) Right.Īnd that’s exactly what a group of German teens made into the topic of a bilingual short film.
