GOOD BOY - Wir wollen nur dein Bestes

In the organizer's words:

• L/UK 2025
• 111 min
• Director: Jan Komasa
• FSK: from 16 years
• German dubbing, Fridays: original version with German subtitles (OmU)

Screenings:

• Thu, June 4, 2026 - Wed, June 10, 2026 at 7:45 pm
• Thu, June 11, 2026 at 7:45 pm
• Sat., June 13, 2026 - Wed., June 17, 2026 at 7:45 pm
• Thu, June 18, 2026 - Wed, June 24, 2026 at 6:00 pm

Performers: Anson Boon, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough

With his film "Good Boy - We Only Want Your Best", Oscar-nominated director Jan Komasa ("Corpus Christi") presents a provocative social thriller that has already been compared to Kubrick's Clockwork Orange by The Guardian.

19-year-old Tommy (Anson Boon) enjoys his life of crime, repeatedly inciting his friends to commit gruesome acts of violence and bragging about it on social media - until one night he is kidnapped by a stranger. When Tommy wakes up, he finds himself chained up in the basement of a remote suburban house where his kidnapper Chris (Stephen Graham) lives with his wife Kathryn (Andrea Riseborough) and their young son Jonathan. The family do everything they can to "reform" Tommy's uncontrolled behavior and subject him to numerous psychological games to turn him into a "good boy". While Tommy resists this with all his might, he is drawn deeper and deeper into the dysfunctional family dynamics of Chris, Kathryn and Jonathan, but is also confronted with his own desires. And Tommy gradually realizes that his feelings are blurring between hatred and sympathy, between the flight reflex and the need for closeness.