• BACKGROUND

    BACKGROUND



BACKGROUND

by Khaled Abdulwahed

BACKGROUND

Germany | 2023 | 64:00 min

Formal Categories

Biography / Portrait Family Human Interest Society Human Rights Migration Personal Point of View

Content Categories

Documentary
Synopsis
A photo camera is cleaned. Click. The shutter works. Bright light. A crackle and hiss in the sound. A broken "Hello?" opens a conversation between Khaled Abdulwahed, a Syrian filmmaker living in Leipzig, and his father in Aleppo. The son reconstructs his father's journey, arriving in the GDR as an exchange student in 1956. His son applies for asylum more than 60 years later as a refugee. The civil war in Syria separates their stories, the film BACKGROUND brings them back together and continues them.
Festivals/Awards
2023
Grand Prix – FID Marseille
IDFA – Signed
47 Duisburger Filmwoche
40 Kassel Dokfest
26 RIDM, Montreal
Concorso Internazionale - Filmmaker Festival Milano
2024
20 Achtung Berlin FF
Cast and Crew
  • Director Khaled Abdulwahed
Production Company
pong film GmbH
Skalitzer Str. 62, 10997 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 61076098

info@pong-berlin.de
http://www.pong-berlin.de
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