Completed - GERMAN, ALBANIAN - Drama - 121 minutes
A chemical engineer feeling discriminated against and bullied at work, plunges into an identity crisis.
Year of production : 2020 Director(s) : Visar MORINA Writer(s) : Visar MORINA Cast : Mišel MATIČEVIČ, Sandra HULLER, Rainer BOCK, Thomas MRAZ Producer(s) : Janine JACKOWSKI (KOMPLIZEN FILM GMBH), Jonas DORNBACH (KOMPLIZEN FILM GMBH), Maren ADE (KOMPLIZEN FILM GMBH)
Xhafer, a 45 year old, Kosovo-born pharmaceutical engineer living in Germany suddenly feels discriminated against and bullied at work because of his ethnic background. When Xhafer finds a dead rat hanging from the gate in front of his home, it is immediately clear to him that his racist colleagues could be behind it. Every occurrence, every word, every gesture is taken as evidence. Xhafer’s uneasiness grows every day. His German wife Nora is tired of him playing the racism card all the time. Do his colleagues simply dislike him? Or is there more to their hostility? Is this all in his mind or is it the actual reality?EXILE chronicles a steadily growing, though possibly imagined, threat. As Xhafer loses his job, wife, and his family, he walks a delicate tightrope between his life as an integrated, middle-class family man, and foreigner in his adopted country.A thriller about paranoia and identity that’s simultaneously dark and surreal, with echoes of genre cinema and an unconventional sense of humor.
Country(ies) : GERMANY, BELGIUM, KOSOVO
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Sundance Film Festival 2020 World Cinema Dramatic CompetitionBerlinale - Berlin IFF 2020 PanoramaRed Sea IFF 2020 Official Competition