Film screening
Exile
Sommerkino - Sandra Hüller Retrospective
Drama // 121 minutes // 2020
Born in Kosovo, Xhafer (Mišel Maticevic) is a pharmaceutical engineer, married with three children and has been living a middle-class life in a medium-sized German city for years. Gradually, however, he begins to feel that he is being discriminated against and harassed at work. One day, when he finds a dead rat at his front door, he realises once and for all that his colleagues have made a racist remark. From then on, every event, every word, every gesture becomes a clue, even proof, of his suspicions. Xhafer's unease grows from day to day. His German wife Nora (Sandra Hüller), on the other hand, is tired of her husband suspecting mobbing behind every difficulty. Do his colleagues just not like him? Or is there more to their hostility? The incidents that confirm Xhafer's opinion keep piling up. But is it really happening, or is he just imagining things?
"Exil" is a powerful examination of the psychological impact of xenophobia and the fine line between reality and perception.
Directed by: Visar Morina
Screenplay: Visar Morina
Producer: Komplizen Film, Frakas Productions, Ikone Studio
Music: Benedikt Schiefer
Cinematography: Matteo Cocco
Film editing: Laura Lauzemis, Visar Morina
Cast: Mišel Matičević, Sandra Hüller, Rainer Bock, Thomas Mraz, Flonja Kodheli
Awards (selection)
- Munich Film Festival (2020): Best Director
- Sarajevo Film Festival (2020): Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor
- German Film Critics Association Awards (2021): Best Feature Film
Details
Goethe-Institut Nicosia
21 Markou Drakou
Next to Ledra Palace Hotel on the "Green Line"
1102 Nicosia
Language: German with English subtitles
Price: Free admission
+357 22 674606
kultur-nikosia@goethe.de
Part of series Time for Sommerkino!
In the garden of the Goethe-Institut