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Film screening | June 01, 11AM | Goethe-Institut Kids Kino: WOW! Message from Outer Space

Join best friends Billie and Dino on a space-filled adventure! Inspired by Billie’s astronaut mom, the duo builds a radio telescope — and when it picks up strange alien signals, no one believes them. Determined to find the source, they head to the European Space Agency... and accidentally launch themselves into space!

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