In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.
Exil (Exile)
WEDNESDAY, May 11, 2022 – 7:00 PM
– 2020 – 121 minutes
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First, there’s a dead rat hanging on the door of the house where Xhafer lives with his wife and children. Then the emails he sends are ‘accidentally’ no longer being received. The signs that this pharmaceutical engineer is being bullied and harassed in his workplace are increasing. Even if neither his wife nor his colleagues seem to believe him, this man, who is originally from Kosovo but who has been well integrated for years, feels more and more outcast from his (German) community. Or is he losing touch with reality?
In his second feature-length film, director Visar Morina dissects the psychological effects of social exclusion and presents them here as an interplay between belonging and alienation. Morina combines subtle images that gradually shift according to his protagonist’s state with meticulous performances from his ensemble, to describe the importance of personality when it comes to integrating into another society, and how quickly cracks can develop in the supposedly firm construct that is identity.
Visar Morina
Born in 1979 in Pristina, Kosovo, in the former Yugoslavia, Visar Morina studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. His second feature film Exil was presented in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2020.
Filmography
2010 Der Schübling (Death by Suffocation); 30 min. 2013 Von Hunden und Tapeten (Of Dogs and Wallpaper); 29 min. 2015 Babai; 104 min. 2020 Exil (Exile); 121 min.
© Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2021
Auteur Film Festival, Serbia 2020
Winner Best Screenplay |
Visar Morina |
Durban International Film Festival 2020
Nominee Best Film |
International Competition Visar Morina |
German Film Critics Association Awards 2021
Winner German Film Critics Award |
Best Actor (Bester Darsteller) Misel Maticevic |
Nominee German Film Critics Award |
Best Film (Bester Spielfilm) Visar Morina |
Best Screenplay (Bestes Drehbuch) Visar Morina |
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Best Film Score (Beste Musik) Benedikt Schiefer |
German Screenplay Award 2018
Winner Screenplay Award |
German Screenplay Award Visar Morina (writer) Komplizen Film |
Guenter Rohrbach Filmpreis 2020
Winner Günter Rohrbach Filmpreis |
Best Film Visar Morina |
Best Male Actor Misel Maticevic |
Haifa International Film Festival 2020
Nominee Carmel Award |
Best International Film Visar Morina |
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2020
Nominee Golden Firebird Award |
Young Cinema Visar Morina |
Istanbul International Film Festival 2020
Nominee Golden Tulip |
International Competition Visar Morina |
Prague International Film Festival 2021
Nominee Amnesty International Febio Fest Award |
Best Film Visar Morina |
Sarajevo Film Festival 2020
Winner Cineuropa Award |
Visar Morina |
Winner Heart of Sarajevo |
Best Film Visar Morina |
Seville European Film Festival 2020
Nominee New Waves Award |
Best Film Visar Morina |
Sundance Film Festival 2020
Nominee Grand Jury Prize |
World Cinema – Dramatic Visar Morina |
São Paulo International Film Festival 2020
Nominee New Directors Competition |
Best Fiction Visar Morina |
Taipei Film Festival 2020
Winner Taiwan Film Critics Society Award |
Visar Morina |
Nominee International New Talent Competition – Grand Prize |
Visar Morina |
Thessaloniki Film Festival 2020
Nominee Meet the Neighbors Competition |
Visar Morina |
Trieste Film Festival 2021
Winner Special Mention |
Best Film Visar Morina |
Nominee Prize Trieste |
Best Film Visar Morina |
Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards 2020
Nominee SIYAD Award |
Best Foreign Film
16th Place
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Zurich Film Festival 2020
Nominee Golden Eye |
Best Film in Focus Switzerland, Germany, Austria Visar Morina |