BERLINALE – PANORAMA 2020

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL – WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION

EXILE

A Film by Visar Morina

Starring Mišel Matičević (BABYLON BERLIN), Sandra Hüller (TONI ERDMANN)

Exile at Berline Panorama  

FEBRUARY 24 @ 12:35PM

Director Visar Morina

Cast: Mišel Matičević, Sandra Hüller

Producers: Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach  

 Writer/Director: Visar Morina (BABAI)

Director Of Photography: Matteo Cocco

Editors: Laura Lauzemis, Hansjörg Weißbrich, Visar Morina

Producers: Komplizen Films / Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach (TONI ERDMANN, SYNONYMS, THIE WHISTLERS, A FANTASTIC WOMAN)

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 one day, it’s 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 (40) 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?

EXIL 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 familyman, 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.

RT: 121min

Germany/Belgium/Kosovo

PRESS SCREENING

Monday, Feb 24 | 8:30AM | CinemaxX 6

PUBLIC SCREENINGS

Monday, Feb 24 | 3:30PM | Zoo Palast 1

Tuesday, Feb 25 | 1:00PM | Cubix 9
Wednesday, Feb 26 | 1:30PM | International

Thursday, Feb 27 | 10:00PM | Colosseum 1

Saturday, Feb 29 | 1:00PM | Cubix 9