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How to Watch
Includes Introduction by Writer/Director Visar Morina.
In the face of daily micro-aggressions (and worse) from his German work colleagues, a prickly Kosovo-born pharmaceutical engineer becomes increasingly paranoid and plunges into an identity crisis.
In his second feature, director-writer Visar Morina (Babai) creates a knock-out experience with claustrophobic cinematography, intelligent production design and edgy soundscapes complementing brilliant performances by Mišel Maticevic as the beleaguered professional, and Toni Erdmann’s Sandra Hüller as his out-of-patience wife who asks, “Did it ever occur to you that it’s not because you’re a foreigner, but because you’re an asshole?” This subtle and uncompromising drama about exclusion vs. inclusion is contemporary German story telling at its best, encompassing relationship drama, family drama, male pride and a mystery. Variety calls it “a nervily comic, impressively poised psychodrama.” Winner, Best Film, Sarajevo Film Festival; German Screenplay Award; Gunter Rohrbach Filmpreis, Best Film, Best Male actor. Kosovo’s submission to the Academy for Best International Film. (Alissa Simon)
Director Biography
Born in 1972 in Pristina, Kosovo Visar Morina studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He is the director of the short films “Death by Suffocation” (2010), “Of Dogs and Wallpaper” (2013) and the feature Father (Babai) (2015).
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