Name: Visar Morina: Exil
Start: 2022-03-30T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Goethe-Institut London

Visar Morina: Exil

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Visar Morina paints a psychologically dense and suspenseful portrait of a man whose identity has been shaken.

Things seem to be going well for Xhafer. An immigrant from Kosovo, he has a good job as a pharmaceutical engineer in a small company and lives in a nice house with his wife and children. His integration seems to have been successful. But then he finds a dead rat on his door step and at work he doesn&#x27;t get important emails or room changes are not communicated to him. Xhafer feels increasingly bullied and discriminated against, but neither his wife nor his boss take these incidents seriously. In the long, dark corridors of his work place, his tension, paranoia, and smouldering anger mount. But did everything really conspire against him?In his skilfully constructed second feature film, Visar Morina paints a psychologically dense and suspenseful portrait of a man whose identity has been shaken, and whose sense of exclusion in turn leads to an increasingly narrow perception. Not only does the boundary between subjective perception and objective reality become blurred, but also between victim and perpetrator, between daily racism and dislike as response to Xhafer’s behaviour. He is not an easy person to like, as we also see him act selfishly and callously. Accordingly, actor Mišel Matičević does not ask for sympathy in the role of Xhafer, but embodies his character at times petrified, at other times full of suppressed aggression, only relaxed when playing with his children.Germany 2020, colour, 121mins. With English subtitles.Directed by Visar Morina. With Mišel Matičević, Sandra Hüller, Rainer Bock, Susanne Bredehöft. Piet Fuchs,Visar Morina was born in Pristina (KV) and is based in Cologne (DE). From 2004-2010 he studied film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, during which he worked on various film and theatre projects as assistant director at the Schauspiel Köln and the Volksbühne Berlin, among others. His diploma film DER SCHÜBLING (Death By Suffocation) was awarded at several national and international festivals, including ‘Most Surprising International Film of the Year’ at the Odense International Film Festival in 2010. His subsequent short OF DOGS AND WALL PAPER (2013) was selected for the International Short Film Competition at Locarno IFF 2013 and nominated for the German Short Film Award in 2014. Visar Morina’s debut feature film BABAI premiered in 2015 and was awarded ‘Best Director’ at Karlovy Vary IFF 2015 and ‘Best Director’, ‘Best Script’, and ‘Best Actor’ at FilmFest München, among others. He is represented by Susan Colak / FBE-Agentur.

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