“It wasn’t that I had not known I was different,” says Amandla Stenberg in a new trailer for “Where Hands Touch.” “As I reached 16 I realized Hitler had a plan for us.” Amma Asante’s latest sees the “Everything, Everything” actress struggling to survive as a biracial teen living in Nazi Germany.
Lenya (Stenberg) and her family move to Berlin to “be invisible,” but the girl’s burgeoning romance with a member of the Hitler Youth (George MacKay) is drawing plenty of attention.
“If his father catches you with his boy, he’ll kill him before he comes and kills us,” Lenya’s mother (Abbie Cornish) warns.
Asante’s previous credits include “A United Kingdom,” “Belle,” and “A Way of Life.” She’s signed on to helm “The Billion Dollar Spy,” a true crime thriller set during the last years of the Cold War.
“Where Hands Touch” will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9 and hits theaters September 14.
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