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Past event
29.4 Tue
2025
From 7:30 PM
To 9:45 PM
In
CineStar Kino at the KulturBrauerei - KB 6
Berlin

Yunan (124')*

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ALFILM Festival - Berlin ALFILM Festival - Berlin
Yunan/ يونان

Fiction, director: Ameer Fakher Eldin, Germany/Palestine/Italy/Canada/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/Jordan, 124 min, EN/DE, with En st. 

A melancholic ode on the longing for a homecoming that remains out of reach. Munir (George Khabbaz), a middle-aged Arab man living in Hamburg, suffers from unexplained breathing difficulties. Afflicted by pain and anguish, he yearns for salvation and seeks refuge on an isolated island in the North Sea. There, the raging storm holds him captive. Munir’s solitude begins to fracture when he encounters Valeska (the legendary Hanna Schygulla), the owner of the guest house where he is staying, and her enigmatic son Karl (Tom Wlaschiha, Game of Thrones). Still, the weight of exile and the ache for a lost home linger, distorting his sense of time and place, casting a shadow over his tormented soul. A beautifully woven, poetic account, its dreamlike language and lyrically composed frames evoke the cinematic mastery of Andrei Tarkovsky and Theo Angelopoulos. The second feature film by Syrian filmmaker Ameer Fakher Eldin premiered in the main competition of the 2025 Berlin Film Festival.

Followed by a film talk with Ameer Fakher Eldin.

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ALFILM Festival - Berlin

ALFILM Festival - Berlin

16th ALFILM - Arab Film Festival Berlin Taking place between the 23rd - 30th of April 2025  at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, City Kino Wedding, Kino in der KulturBrauerei, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Wolf Kino, Spore Initiative and Gretchen, the 16th edition of ALFILM features a wide selection of feature films, documentaries, and short films, while masterclasses, panel discussions, talks, special screenings, and a closing party round off the varied programme. As in previous years, the festival promises audiences a cinematic experience of artistic merit and relevance to timely issues across two program sections. ALFILM Selection highlights the richness of the contemporary Arab cinema landscape with film productions from the past two years. In ALFILM Spotlight Canceled Futures, Endless Pasts: Speculative Fiction on and Archival Subversions of the (Post)colonial Condition, the genre of speculative fiction and the subversive use of the archive are at the centre of an artistic examination of the (post)colonial entanglements of the Arab region. Complete programme at https://alfilm.berlin/.

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