Current Films

Open­ing Program This split-screen work begins with total views as if from Mars, approach­ing the ground simul­ta­ne­ous­ly or alter­nate­ly from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives. Many people are build­ing a coun­try road with … read more

Due to unex­p­tect­ed cir­cum­stanced this event has to be cancelled We are very sorry for this!   On Feb­ru­ary 1st, 2021 Myan­mar Mil­i­tary under the lead­er­ship of Min Aung Hlaing staged … read more

Three mil­lion Afghan refugees live in Iran, often facing dis­crim­i­na­tion and endur­ing mostly pre­car­i­ous con­di­tions. Since the tight­en­ing of U.S. sanc­tions and the result­ing infla­tion, thou­sands of refugees are return­ing … read more

The rela­tion­ship that Varso­vians have with clams is sim­i­lar to the one that once joined canaries and miners. Both species can sense danger sooner than humans because they are much … read more

A busy train­ing center for domes­tic work­ers in Indra­mayu, West Java. Like mil­lions of Indone­sian rural women, Sukma, Meri, Muji and Tari dream of a better life and find­ing hap­pi­ness … read more

Even though China does not cel­e­brate Christ­mas, there are over 600 Christ­mas-dec­o­ra­tion fac­to­ries in Yiwu, China. They are often run as a family busi­ness and man­u­fac­ture year round, employ­ing people … read more

Work­ing to the rhythm of the aisles of a banal super­mar­ket, the employ­ees seem seized by the repet­i­tive tasks and their rou­tine. There is the team from the bakery sec­tion … read more

Fahed wants to change his life. It’s been almost twenty years that he left Alge­ria. At the time he was full of hope when he arrived at the British sea­port of Grims­by, which was long past its heyday. His dream of pros­per­i­ty evap­o­rat­ed. In order to sur­vive finan­cial­ly he works two jobs in a 50 hour week. It’s true that he now has a res­i­dence permit and leads a well-inte­grat­ed life in a work­ers’ flat share, but now, at middle age, he longs to go back to his Alger­ian home, in order to be closer to his mother. And he has mar­riage plans! But will Fahed manage to settle back in there and find his role after such a long absence? His family don’t quite believe his inten­tions to return and tease him because his engage­ment remains a mys­tery. He has prob­a­bly gotten too used to the British men­tal­i­ty, an aunt assumes.

So where is Fahed’s home now? Unprej­u­diced and with an eye for humor­ous details, Karim Sayad fol­lows his tac­i­turn cousin’s dither­ing back and forth. A film about per­son­al and not least social turn­ing points, because in the back­ground the two coun­tries Eng­land and Alge­ria are moving towards polit­i­cal upheavals. (Annina Wettstein)

Karim Sayad was born in Lau­sanne in 1984 to an Alger­ian father and a Swiss mother. After study­ing Inter­na­tion­al Rela­tions he became a doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er. His first short BABOR CASANOVA (2016) won awards at mul­ti­ple inter­na­tion­al fes­ti­vals. He went on with his fea­ture debut OF SHEEP AND MEN (2017) about young men in Algiers who focus on rais­ing rams to escape from precarity.

Direc­tor: Karim Sayad
Cin­e­matog­ra­phy: Patrick Tresch
Edit­ing: Naïma Bachiri
Sound: Miguel A. Dias
Pro­duc­tion: Close Up Films
Dis­tri­b­u­tion: Fil­mo­tor, Prag, michaela@filmotor.com

 

 

Like many African metrop­o­lis­es, the Ethiopi­an cap­i­tal Addis Ababa is grow­ing rapid­ly. The Oromo farm­ers in the sur­round­ing area call it Fin­finnee, and a part of the Great Rift Valley … read more

Fünf Jahre lang kämpft die Bürg­erini­tia­tive DoucheFLUX dafür, ein Gebäude zu finden, zu finanzieren und zu sanieren, wo die am meis­ten Benachteiligten der Stadt sich duschen und wo sie ärztliche … read more

In a lab­o­ra­to­ry-like setup, The View­ing Booth recounts a unique encounter between a film­mak­er and a viewer. The film explores the way we make mean­ings for non­fic­tion images, and how … read more

“Mama, I miss you so much,” begins a letter Alima writes to her mother. She is one of count­less Indone­sian women work­ing as a “babu,” or nanny, for a Dutch … read more

Out of five mil­lion Costa Ricans, just over 100,000 belong to the coun­try’s eight indige­nous groups. Under a 1977 law, 24 areas of the coun­try are pro­tect­ed as indige­nous ter­ri­to­ries. … read more

This film describes the cre­ation of a work of art in all its amaz­ing indi­vid­ual steps. We are in the west­ern moun­tains of Iran, the land of the Bakhtiaris. Wool … read more