Emma is addicted to chewing gum and in the middle of puberty, but she doesn't really want to admit it. She wants to do nothing else with her childhood friend Lasse than swing on the swing, play with her father's model railway and chew gum – she doesn't want anything to change. But Lasse suddenly has a girlfriend and, even worse, he's interested in sex. But it's not just Lasse who's acting weird; Emma's parents want to take down his train set because she's too old for it now. But does that really have anything to do with age? Can Emma win back her childhood friend? Or is her childish bubble-blowing world about to burst?

BUBBLE GUMMED GIRL by Anja Gurres is a sensitive coming-of-age short film about the inner resistance to growing up. The film was made in 2018 at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and has been shown at several national and international festivals, including the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg, the FiSH Film Festival Rostock, and the San Diego International Kids Film Festival. There, it received the UFA Fiction Petra Mosselman Memorial Prize, among other awards. Gurres stages the moment when the bubble of childhood threatens to burst with great emotional precision, while leaving room for the tender hope that change does not always mean loss.