Berlin-based Helmer Amir Facker Aldin, who was born to Syrian parents from Golan Heights, in Kiev, Ukraine, “” with “Berlinal Competition”Yunan“The story of Munir, a prominent Arabian writer, who is living in exile in Berlin and is undergoing some heavy internal turmoil.
Cumbersome from “an unforgettable past and an unknown future”, as the director said, Munir leaves on a remote island to consider suicide. There, he meets an intelligent elderly woman named Waselka played by the German cinema icon. Hanna sagullaWhose simple tasks of kindness rotate their desire to live.
“Yunan” is the second film in the employed trilogy “Homeland”, the planned 2021 feature debut “The Stranger”. In the film, who made a splash in Venice, a middle -aged person returns from Russia to work as an unlicensed doctor in Golan Heights.
“Yunan” has stars as Munir, Shygulla, Palestinian actor Ali Suleiman (“Paradise Now”) and Sibel Kakili (“Game of Thrones”). The director spoke Diversity About that “Yunan” can help combat Germany’s growing immigrant spirit.
How did the trilogy sprout?
The idea of the trilogy came because I felt that there is a subject of an estrangement and exile that was somehow part of my identity, or the world in which I grew up. My family is from Golan heights, occupied goal heights, and it is a place where displacement and flexibility are not just part of history, but also woven in daily life clothes.
Would you say that “stranger” is about a stranger among its own people, while “Unin” is about a stranger among strangers?
Yes, “UN” is basically about a figure that is forced to live in exile and is unable to return to its motherland. The story of this film came from personal experience, but with deep curiosity about the future, and about the unknown, and we all face existence fears. I am ready for these questions which are not answers. What else happens by the uncertainty of life when everything becomes familiar. And I am specially taken by the refugee subject. Or the most common refugee subject included those who left their homes due to war and national crises. Whether it is Ukrainian, or what happened after Arab spring: Syrian, Sudani, Egyptians. Everyone.
What was it like working with Hannah Sangulla?
Hannah himself was a refugee during the day. She moved to Munich (from Poland) and Nazi had her own story of trauma and later trauma from Germany. He made me very romantic about the implications of home loss and cultural loss. She was telling me: “Why can’t anyone have two houses?” Somehow it is about the intelligence of the actors that I had chosen which brought me as the new horizon, what this film can bring. When you look at Hannah Shagulla, who is 80 years old, you feel that he is really true for himself. And I think it will echo with the audience somehow. If they can feel it, it can also be a lesson. They can watch the movie and say: “You know what? Perhaps we should look different on strangers. Perhaps we do not need to do so much stress. ,
Amir fakhar aldin
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