Exile

Exil

61st TIFF: Greek premiere

Xhafer, a Kosovo-born 45-year-old pharmaceutical engineer, lives and works in Germany. His concern over the hints of racial discrimination by his colleagues soon turns into panic, as he finds a dead rat hanging from his home entrance. As he grows suspicious of everyone and everything around him, the thin line between reality and imagination keeps blurring day by day. A somber and surreal thriller that explores the notions of identity and expatriation, delving into the abyss of paranoia.

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Direction: Visar Morina

Script: Visar Morina

Cinematography: Matteo Cocco

Editing: Laura Lauzemis, Hansjörg Weißbrich, Visar Morina

Sound: Kai Tebbel

Music: Benedikt Schiefer

Actors: Mišel Matičević, Sandra Hüller, Rainer Bock, Thomas Mraz, Flonja Kodheli

Production: Komplizen Film

Producers: Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade

Co-production: Frakas Productions, Ikonë Studio, WDR, ARTE, VOO, BeTV

Co-producers: Jean-Yves Roubin, Cassandre Warnauts, Yll Uka, Valon Bajgora

Sets: Christian Goldbeck

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Germany, Belgium, Kosovo

Production Year: 2020

Duration: 121΄

Distribution in Greece: One from the heart

Contact: The Match Factory

Awards/Distinctions: Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film, Cineuropa Award – Sarajevo IFF 2020, Taiwan Film Critics Society Award – Taipei Film Festival

Visar Morina

Visar Morina is a Kosovo-born director, who lives and works in Germany. His debut short, Death by Suffocation, was awarded at several national and international festivals, while his sophomore short, Of Dogs and Wall Paper, was screened at the Locarno Film Festival. His debut feature, Babai, earned him the Best Director Award at the Karlovy Vary Festival.