Documentary, director: Khalid Shamis, South Africa/Libya/Qatar 2021, 73 min., En./Arab. with En. ST

Double Feature with Don’t Get Too Comfortable
24.4.2022 | 21.00 | Silent Green |

When Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in 1969, Ashur Shamis, who left Libya for the UK in the beginning of the 1960s, becomes part of the organised resistance. For decades he fights against the regime and becomes a Libyan enemy of the state. A bounty of 1 million dollars is put on his head. Despite everything, he keeps his political activities secret from his children. When Shamis is finally able to return to his homeland for the first time after Gaddafi’s fall, he is quickly faced with the question of whether there is a place there for people who share his ideals. In “The Colonel’s Stray Dogs”, director Khalid Shamis questions his father’s decisions and paints the portrait of a man whom he never quite managed to grasp.

In cooperation with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung