Babai
Film - New German Cinema Filmfest 2015

Babai

Directed by Visar Morina

Info

Director: Visar Morina
Section: New German Cinema
Country: Germany, France, Kosovo, Macedonia
Year: 2015
Language: Albanian, German, Serbian
Version: Original version with German subtitles, Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Val Maloku, Astrit Kabashi, Adriana Matoshi, Enver Petrovci, Xhevdet Jashari
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

Babai

10-year-old Nori is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother and then being abandoned by his father Gezim in the Kosovo of the 1990s.After a dangerous and eventful journey, Nori finally arrives in Germany and is reunited with his father, but he cannot understand how Gezim could just have left him. And chances of them being able to stay in Germany look bleak when Gezim’s application for asylum is rejected.


PLEASE NOTE: This film will be screened in its original version with German subtitles. EXCEPTION: The screening on June 29, 10:30 PM, will be in its original version with English subtitles.

Meet the director

Visar Morina

Credits

Screenplay: Visar Morina
Director of Photography: Matteo Cocco
Film Editor: Stefan Stabenow
Composer: Benedikt Schiefer
Production Designer: Jutta Freyer
Costume Design: Genoveva Kylburg
Sound: Igor Popovski
Producer: Nicole Gerhards
Production Company: NiKo Film
Co-Producer: Visar Krusha,Tomi Salkovski, Xénia Maingot
Co-Production Company: Produksioni Krusha, Skopje Filmstudio, Eaux Vives Productions
Distributor: missingFilms