Exile Never Ends

by Bahar Bektas
  • 2023 Pink Shadow Films GmbH
  • 2023 Pink Shadow Films GmbH
  • 2023 Pink Shadow Films GmbH
  • 2023 Pink Shadow Films GmbH

    Synopsis

    Bahar's brother Taner is serving in prison in Germany and is about to be deported to Turkey. Bahar uses the time of waiting for her brother's deportation to hold the camera on her family members.
    In calm and sensitive imagery, she explores the family's emotional and geographical worlds of uprooting and new beginnings between Germany and Turkey. With this film, Bahar claims a territory for her family while being squeezed between two countries and a state of in-between.

    Festivals

    2024
    Film Critics Award – 45 FF Max Ophüls Preis
    FFF-Förderpreis Dokumentarfilm – 39 DOK.fest Munich
    20 Achtung Berlin FF
    17 Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International
    5 LETsDOK
    Best Documentary Hessian Film and Cinema Award
    41 Kassel Dokfest
    2025
    GRIMME PRIZE section Information & Culture

    Cast and Crew

    Director

    Bahar Bektas