Date
Hour
Place
29/07
15:30
THE SMALL CINEMA
Wenn Gott schläft
reż|dir Till Schauder | USA, DE | 2017 | 88 min
prod|pro Sara Nodjoumi, Till Schauder scen|wr Till Schauder zdj|ph Till Schauder, Gerardo Milszstein muz|mus Max Avery Lichtenstein mon|ed Tina Grapenthin ob|cast Shahin Najafi, Leili Bazargan, Günter Wallraff, Majid Kazemi, Shahryar Ahadi dys|dis Partner Pictures
DESCRIPTION
In 2012 hardline clerics issued a death fatwa against Iranian singer Shahin Najafi and placed a $100,000 bounty on his head. But refusing to go the way of Rushdie who spent a decade in hiding, Shahin says, “Rushdie could sit at home and write. I’m a musician. I have to perform.” The film follows the twists and turns of this dramatic situation, which coincides with Europe’s growing refugee crisis. Though Shahin no longer shares the refugees’ faith, he feels connected to them culturally and has renewed energy to be a voice for the countless victims of war flooding into Germany.
AWARDS
2017 Cracow FF – Golden HeynalDIRECTOR
Till Schauder – Till Schauder is a German filmmaker based in Brooklyn. He made his U.S. debut with the feature “Santa Smokes” which won Best Director at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award. His first documentary, “The Iran Job’, was released worldwide and screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival.FILMOGRAPHY
2017 Kiedy Bóg śpi|When God Sleeps2012 The Iran Job
2002 Santa Smoke
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