A wedding sabotage plot drives this German comedy about friendship, jealousy and letting go.
What is For Jojo about?
Paula and Jojo have spent years as inseparable best friends, sharing a wild dating life across Berlin's nightlife scene. When Jojo suddenly falls for someone and starts planning a wedding, Paula finds herself unable to accept that the friendship she has built her identity around is changing. What starts as mild interference escalates into a full campaign to derail the engagement, pulling in a circle of friends, exes and bystanders along the way. The film leans into farce and awkward set pieces as Paula's schemes repeatedly backfire, forcing her to confront how much of her resistance is really about Jojo and how much is about her own fear of being left behind. Underneath the comic chaos sits a more familiar question: what happens to a close friendship when one person's life moves forward and the other isn't ready to follow.
About the cast
Caro Cult stars as Paula, with Nina Gummich as Jojo and Steven Sowah, Louis Nitsche, Susanne Bredehöft, Mohamed Elgendy, Sidsel Hindhede and Tom Lass filling out the wider circle of friends and exes caught in the fallout. Director Barbara Ott keeps the pace brisk, favoring quick scenes and overlapping chaos over slower character studies.
Context & significance
For Jojo sits in a run of German-language ensemble comedies set in contemporary Berlin, using the city's dating and nightlife scene as a backdrop for its central friendship story. Its focus on a woman actively working against a wedding rather than toward one gives it a different shape than most romantic comedies built around the same setup.
Watching For Jojo on Ktime
For Jojo is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, part of a growing catalogue of German and European comedy titles on the platform. Browsing the film's page requires no sign-in, and the Farsi interface makes it straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences to search out international comedy alongside K-Time's Persian content.