Background

Documentary, director: Khaled Abdulwahed, Germany, 2023, 64 min., Arab., Ger. with En. ST

Double Feature with Neo Nahda

An intimate phone call between father and son. Khaled Abdulwahed reconstructs the story of his father, who lived as a student in the GDR in the 1950s, drawing parallels to his own migration to Germany, through which he escaped the civil war in Syria. Temporal and geographical distance blur as Abdulwahed artfully merges images of his father with present-day footage. Accompanied by the voices of the protagonists, the film explores concepts of identity and memory within two lives from then and now, between Syria and (East) Germany. The film premiered at FIDMarseille – Festival international de Cinéma Marseille and was awarded with the Grand Prix of the International Competition.

In cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.