In Germany, an Arab family named Amal, Omar, and their son Ahmad encounter a man named Franz in a playground. Unfortunately, things escalate when he attacks Amal due to her headscarf. This leads to a court case, where everything changes.

A searing debut on racism’s corrosive effects, Erol Afşin’s It’s Burning confronts the violence embedded in systems and gestures alike. What begins as a single insult spirals into tragedy, laying bare the fractures of today’s Western world and the cycles of harm they perpetuate.