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A world premiere: The odyssey of two very different people in search of something elusive called home.
Yak, a troubled pop musician, receives shocking news. His father, who’d rushed back to his home country of Syria decades ago, and whom Yak had nearly forgotten about, is in a coma in a Cologne hospital. There’s another surprise: Yak has a 15-year-old half-sister named Latifa, who speaks only Arabic. Circumstances compel him to travel across Germany with her.
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(only P&I)HFF Kino 2
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After the film: Q&A with Leis Bagdach and team
Sendlinger Tor -
After the film: Q&A with Leis Bagdach and Holm Taddiken
HFF Audimax -
City 3
Meet the director
Leis Bagdach
Leis Bagdach was born in Cologne to a German mother and a Syrian father. He studied German literature and theater at the University of Leipzig. Since 2000, he has lived in Berlin, where he is a freelance writer for theater, film, and television. His first full-length screenplay, FERNES LAND, was adapted into a motion picture in 2011 and premiered at the Max-Ophüls-Preis film festival. IN THE ROSE GARDEN marks his debut as a director.