The State I Am In

Die innere Sicherheit — known in English as The State I Am In (2001) — is a German drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Christian Petzold and starring Barbara Auer and Julia Hummer. Clara and Hans are political fugitives who have spent fifteen years moving across Europe, always just ahead of the German authorities.

Their daughter Jeanne has known nothing else. No school, no friends, no fixed home. On a beach in Portugal she meets a boy, and for the first time she has something worth staying for. Petzold built the film around that collision — between a teenager's need for a normal life and parents who gave that up long ago. It's a quiet, unsettling piece of work. Stream The State I Am In (2001) online on iFILM.