Body Rice(2006)

Body Rice is a German film following Katrin, a teenager sent to southern Portugal as part of an experimental social rehabilitation program in 1980. Dispatched to the remote Alentejo region, she encounters a harsh, sparsely populated landscape that forces her to forge an unexpected bond with her surroundings. Alongside Julia and Pedro, Katrin constructs a makeshift refuge in this desolate no-man's-land, where the three teens must navigate isolation, survival, and the weight of displacement. The film explores how institutional systems shape young lives and the resilience required to build community in abandonment.