screening format
DCP
aspect ratio
1.66:1
sound format
Dolby SR
original-language
Arabic
subtitles
Arabic
screening format
Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov)
aspect ratio
1.66:1
sound format
Dolby SR
original-language
Arabic, German
subtitles
Arabic
A close relative has disappeared in the Syrian war region. Ibrahim, an instrument maker and family man, enters a struggle with his feelings of responsibility towards his family back home. The war is thousands of kilometres away and yet destroys everything.
director
Khaled Mzher
Editing
Beatrice Babin, Khaled Mzher
Script
Khaled Mzher
DOP
Alexander Hasskerl
Production
Alexis Delanoue
Sound Design
Fabian Hinrichs
film school
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Festivals
Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München, Germany
(Student Camera Award)
San Sebastian Festival, Spain
Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival, Kraków, Poland
2015
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
(Deutsche und Internationale Wettbewerben)
Production
- Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
- Anna Laura Wenzel
- Potsdamer Str. 2
- 10785 Berlin
- +49 30 25759152
- http://www.dffb.de
Distribution
- Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
- Anna Laura Wenzel
- Potsdamer Str. 2
- 10785 Berlin
- +49 30 25759152
- http://www.dffb.de
Sales
- Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
- Friedrich-Krause-Ufer 19
- 13353 Berlin
- http://www.dffb.de
School
- Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
- Friedrich-Krause-Ufer 19
- 13353 Berlin
- http://www.dffb.de
Khaled Mzher
Born in Damascus in 1984;
graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus in 2007;
2009-11 studies film directing at the Polish Film School in Lodz. (PWSFTViT);
since 2012 studies Directing at German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB)
Filmography
2013 Daybreak
2015 Kinder des Krieges
2015 Qassem Salon
2015 Einschnitte
2016 Kaktus