Focus Country Germany - Childrens’ Films. Mission Ulja Funk

Synopsis

Ulja Funk is fascinated by astronomy and wants give a lecture on her current findings to the choir congregation of the Lemheim Free Church to which her parents and her grandmother Olga belong. Frustrated by the lack of interest with which she is met, she secretly takes matters into her own hands. She convinces her classmate Henk, who can drive but needs help at school, to drive her to the village in Belarus where a small asteroid is due to hit in just under two days. The journey begins on the wrong foot when they discover her grandmother Olga trapped in the car, and soon the church congregation is on their trail. Mission Ulja Funk is a fast-paced and quirky road movie, one that is hard to fit in a box, about a 12-year-old asteroid researcher who doesn't rock just her Russian-German family's boat.