9. – 30. June on arsenal 3.
Due to licensing reasons EXILE can only be seen in Germany and Austria.
It’s high summer in a typical German estate of terraced houses. It’s home to Xhafer, a pharmaceutical engineer with Kosovan roots. His German is excellent, his wife is a white German academic, they have three children together. He discovers a dead rat wrapped in cloth in his front garden. Important information from his work is withheld from him; his job is sabotaged; he is made to look like a fool in front of his colleagues. Is his wife cheating on him? Or is it he who is pushing her away? The heat hangs heavy on him. His shirt is drenched with sweat. Is Xhafer being discriminated against and bullied, or is his behaviour simply insufferable, and what is happening has nothing to do with his background, as his wife wants him to believe? As he searches for answers, he risks losing himself in the corridors of his workplace and behind darkened windows – his place of exile.
Director and screenwriter Visar Morina forges a trippy narrative that is richly atmospheric, exploring perceptions of alienation and marginalisation. EXILE gives a multi-layered account of the fragility of a German mainstream society that believes itself to be open and modern. (Biene Pilavci)
Visar Morina, born in 1979 in Pristina, Kosovo, in the former Yugoslavia. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. His second feature film EXIL was presented in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2020.
Production Komplizen Film (Berlin, Deutschland), Frakas Productions (Lüttich, Belgien), Ikonë Studio (Pristina, Kosovo) Director Visar Morina Cinematography Matteo Cocco Editing Laura Lauzemis, Hansjörg Weißbrich, Visar Morina Music Benedikt Schiefer Sound Design Kai Tebbel Sound Mixing Emmanuel de Boissieu Sound Dirk Bombey Production Design Christian Goldbeck Costumes Gitti Fuchs Make-Up Diana Dresen Assistant director Robert Špika Casting Susanne Ritter Production manager Peter Kreutz Producers Janina Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade Co-Producers Jean-Yves Roubin, Cassandre Warnauts, Yll Uka, Valon Bajgora Co-Production WDR, Köln, Arte, Straßbug, VOO, Lüttich, BeTV, Brüssel With Mišel Matičević, Sandra Hüller, Rainer Bock, Thomas Mraz.
World Sales The Match Factory(Köln, Deutschland)
Films: 2010: Der Schübling (30 Min.). 2013: Von Hunden und Tapeten (29 Min.). 2015: Babai (104 Min.). 2020: Exil (121 Min.).
