Fiction – Exile Film Festival 2023

In This Silence I Believe

In This Silence I Believe - 2023

— 17:25 min min - Fiction

Number: 44
Show: Saturday 11 November, 14:30, Viktoriasalen

Director: Simon Spitzer

Stars: —

Storyline

In "In this Silence I Believe," the club guests provide the focus for documentary observations and the resulting investigation of a subculture. With an alienated sound design, the familiar elements at the club are viewed in an experimental cinematic way.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Language: English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 17 min

Exodus

Exodus - 2023

— 102 min min - Fiction

Number: 42
Show: Monday 13 November, 18:30, Hagabion Sal 1

Director: Abbe Hassan

Stars: —

Storyline

A professional smuggler tries to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Sweden

Language: Arabic, Swedish text

Company Credits

Production Companies: B-Reel Films

Technical Specs

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

Geronimo

Geronimo - 2014

— 104 min min - Fiction

Number: 41
Show: Monday 13 November, 13:00, Angereds Bio

Director: Tony Gatlif

Stars: —

Storyline

South of France. In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the youngsters of the St Pierre neighborhood. The mood changes when Nil Terzi, a teenage girl of Turkish origin, flees an arranged marriage, running to the arms of her gypsy lover, Lucky Molina. Their escape sparks hostilities between the two clans. When the jousting and the musical battles begin, Geronimo struggles to quell the ensuing unrest around her.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: France

Language: French, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: Princes Films, Région Rhône-Alpes, Canal+ Fiction

Technical Specs

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

Red and Green

Red and Green - 2019

— 10 min min - Fiction

Number: 36
Show: Monday 13 November, 13:00, Angereds Bio

Director: Sara Faxry

Stars: —

Storyline

During daily life, spontaneous events sometimes occur that become decisive for the rest of our lives.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Kurdistan

Language: Kurdish, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 10 min

The Easter Stone

The Easter Stone - 2022

— 18:35 min - Fiction

Number: 35
Show: Sunday 12 November, 19:00, Hagabion Sal 1 | Tuesday 14 November, 13:00, Angereds Bio

Director: Alex Afshar

Stars: —

Storyline

Two sisters are on their way to their grandmother to deliver a pie to her on Easter Sunday. But everything doesn't seem to go as they had planned.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Sweden

Language: Swedish, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: Bright Future

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 18 min

Salvation Rain

Salvation Rain - 2018

— 12 min min - Fiction

Number: 31
Show: Monday 13 November, 18:30, Angereds Bio

Director: Veysel Celik

Stars: —

Storyline

War is everywhere: east, west, north, south. The war is always valued over the people who die. But the struggle of the people who survived will continue. Thousands of people are losing their lives and leaving behind their relatives. Burying the dead and grieving in response to a loss is holy to societies. This grieving period is a recovery period. Normal grieving allows one to let a loved one go and keep on living healthily. Grieving is painful, and it's important that those who have suffered a loss be allowed to express their grief. But it can be a never-ending melancholy and a social pathology if they cannot express it. This pathology gradually increases in communities exposed to mass trauma, and the generations are entering a never-ending grief period. Janya is a symbol of societies that have not completed the grief ritual. In the "Salvation Rain" project, I first wanted to complete a personal and communal grief period. In his childhood, Janya was the only one who survived by escaping from a night massacre. After 20 years, he returns, and the repressed grief overwhelms him. To cope with the past, Janya creates his own reality in a parallel time

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Kurdistan

Language: Kurdish, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 12 min

The Scent Of Dialogue

The Scent Of Dialogue - 2021

— 30 min min - Fiction

Number: 30
Show: Saturday 11 November, 19:00, Hagabion Sal 1 | Wednesday 15 November, 18:30, Hagabion Sal 2

Director: Fariba Haidari

Stars: —

Storyline

An Afghan woman, ZAHRA, 26, has lived with her husband in Sweden for four years. She separated to follow her dreams and find a new life in a new society. Living alone feels great initially, but she is exposed to some problems she is unprepared for. She studies and, at the same time, works as a home help. Now, six months after the separation, she finally dares to tell her mother about the separation. The mother, who recently had heart surgery, gets angry and stops contacting her. Zahra fights to find a way to keep her freedom and her mother's contact. The film shows similarities and differences between two women from different cultures and generations.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Sweden

Language: Persian, Swedish, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Checkpoint

Checkpoint - 1987

— 91 min min - Fiction

Number: 28
Show: Saturday 11 November, 13:00, Hagabion Sal 1 | Wednesday 15 November, 18:30, Hagabion Sal 2

Director: Parviz Sayyad

Stars: —

Storyline

A busload of College students returning to Michigan from a Canadian field trip is stopped at the US border during the Iranian hostage crisis. The group includes a number of Iranian passengers, divided along ideological lines, whose debates about policy and politics soon lead to a full-scale confrontation.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: USA

Language: Persian, English, Subtitles: English

Company Credits

Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front - 2022

— 148 min min - —

Number: 27
Show: Tuesday 14 November, 19:00, Viktoriasalen

Director: Edward Berger

Stars: —

Storyline

The story follows teenagers Paul Bäumer and his friends Albert and Müller, who voluntarily enlist in the German army, riding a wave of patriotic fervor that quickly dissipates once they face the brutal realities of life on the front. Paul's preconceptions about the enemy and the rights and wrongs of the conflict soon crumble. However, amid the countdown to an armistice, Paul must continue fighting until the end, with no purpose other than to satisfy the top brass's desire to end the war on a German offensive.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: —

Details

Country: German, French, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: Amusement Park Films, Gunpowder Films, Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime: 2 h 28 min

As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night

As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night - 2022

— 21 min min - Fiction

Number: 24
Show: Saturday 11 November, 16:00, Hagabion Sal 1 | Tuesday 14 November, 18:30, Folkets Hus Hammarkullen

Director: Søren Lind, Larissa Sansour

Stars: —

Storyline

An Arabic-language opera about mourning and inherited trauma. Performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish, it fuses Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Masha’al, a traditional Palestinian song. Steeped in black and white, Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish delivers an Arabic-language aria about intergenerational sorrow and maternal grief. The haunting composition, based on Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and the Palestinian traditional song Mashaal, traces a century of loss and harrowing conflict with extraordinary power and grace. – Leonie Woodfin

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Denmark, United Kingdom

Language: Arabic, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: Ali Roche / Ali Roche Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 21 min