All Aicha wants to do is get her black belt without upsetting her traditional family’s values. Fighter is an affecting girl-power fable set amid the Turkish emigre community in Copenhagen. The film centres on Aicha, a spirited teenager whose conservative parents expect her to become a doctor – but this girl dreams in kung fu. Dutiful to her family’s demands, it’s only on the kung fu mat that Aicha feels truly at home. Aicha secretly enrols in an elite, co-ed kung fu school, where she meets and falls for Emil, her training partner. Just as Aicha ties on her brand-new black belt, her older brother announces that he intends to wed the daughter of a wealthy and traditional Turkish clan. When Aicha’s kung fu secret comes to light at his engagement party, she’s forced to decide between the family she loves and the passion for fighting she can’t live without.