Maltournée
2023 | 25 min | Documentary
The collaborative project by Wim Wenders "A Sense of Place": a short film about the refugees living in the post-industrial suburbs of Paris.
Pooya Abbasian
DirectorBorn in Tehran, Iran, in 1982, filmmaker Pooya Abbasian first studied civil engineering before turning to cinema and training at the Karnameh Film School. His short film 'The Fox' (Rûbâh, 2013) gained international attention and was screened in 2014 in the Generation Kplus section of the Berlinale. In 2018, he presented his feature film debut, 'Mirage' (Sarāb), a project that was previously developed at the Locarno Film Festival's Open Doors Hub. In addition to his directorial work, Abbasian is also active in other areas of filmmaking, for instance as the editor for the documentary 'Hayedeh: Legendary Persian Diva' (2009).
Films
A Sense of Place – Interview with Wim Wenders
By Azin Feizabadi, Pooya Abbasian
2023 | 21 min | Documentary
Interview with Wim Wenders about his vision, the significance of place in cinema, and the response to this project among Iranian filmmakers.
Recommended for you
Amal
2014 | 55 min | Documentary
Memories of the war influence their everyday life. Especially the violent death of their three-year-old daughter Amal (Arabic: hope) keeps the parents stuck in the past. She died during an attack when a shell hit the family home. Their two sons were seriously injured. Ghadir and Mohamad then came to Germany to have the injured children treated here. Then they want to go back. Arriving in Germany is easier for the children than for their parents. They are slowly getting used to their new home - each ...
Kommen und Gehen
2017 | 57 min | Documentary
In autumn 2015, a long-established hotel in Halle closed its doors to guests and was converted into a refugee shelter. In this documentary, filmmaker Uwe Mann observes the last days of the hotel, the dismissal of the staff, the departure of the last hotel guests and the arrival of the new residents. For the staff, the closing came as a surprise, as it did for Uwe Mann, who had already retraced the history of the hotel in his previous film "Im Dreieck". Two weeks before the hotel was to close, the ...
Si-o-se Pol - The Last Days of Parvis K.
2015 | 82 min | Drama
There he meets two European migrants who are also in distress. "THE LAST DAYS OF PARVIS K. is an emotional and moving story about three different fates." (filmaffe.de) Henrik Peschel's internationally acclaimed drama THE LAST DAYS OF PARVIS K. is at the same time a very private and a very political story. Parvis flees to Europe after a long prison term which involved torture. Together with his new companions, Fabrizio, a failed pianist from Italy who keeps his head above water with occasional jobs, ...
Wada
2015 | 28 min | Drama
A war raging in one part of the world can affect people thousands of miles away. Ibrahim, a musical instrument maker, came to Berlin in the 1980's as a refugee. As a family man, he struggles with the grueling sense of responsibility towards his family. The war is thousands of miles away, yet it destroys everything. Film director Khaled Mzher, a student at the DFFB - the German Film and Television Academy Berlin saw his documentary short win the Short Film Corner Award of the San Sebastian Film ...
The Invisibles
2014 | 77 min | Documentary
In THE INVISIBLES, Benjamin Kahlmeyer accompanies three men who make their way through the the wheels bureaucracy in the official process of seeking asylum. How does it feel to place one's own fate in the hands of the strictly choreographed German bureaucracy? A story about the grind of examination and verifying. Those who identify themselves as asylum seekers in Brandenburg first come to the "Central Initial Admission Office" in Eisenhüttenstadt. Wasim from Syria, Mathew from Kenya and Gedeon ...
Heimatweh
2023 | 85 min | Documentary
HEIMATWEH turns the Greek-Turkish population exchange into a human story of uprooting, grief and homesickness. Starting from the simple idea that people were traded as if they were goods, the documentary follows the pain left behind by forced migration and the longing for a homeland that cannot be returned to. More than two million people were affected when Greeks from Anatolia and Turks from Greece had to leave their homes. HEIMATWEH traces the shock of separation, the break in family continuity ...
Café Waldluft
2015 | 79 min | Documentary
CAFÉ WALDLUFT is not what it used to be. Once a tourist hot spot nestling in the picturesque mountains of Bavaria, it now offers shelter to refugees from all across the globe. For each one of them it carries the hope of a new beginning, the aspiration of a new home – waiting somewhere behind a multitude of obstacles. So what does it take for them to arrive for good? What does it really take for a place to become home? With only a few remaining guests in their late sixties, they brainstorm together ...
If I Was A Tree
2014 | 26 min | Documentary
Having a jewish father who is denying to be a jew and a mother who always has suffered from being not enough accepted as a jew she´s questioning herself where she actually belongs to.
The Dream
1987 | 45 min | Documentary
Interviews with Palestinians living in Lebanese refugee camps, some of it shot in Sabra and Shatila before the massacre. Compiled from interviews with Palestinian refugees from the camps in Sabra, Shatila, Bourj el-Barajneh, Ain al-Hilweh and Rashidieh in Lebanon. While at the camps, Mohamad Malas asks people about their nightly dreams, which always refer to Palestine: a woman recounts her dream of winning the war; a Feda'i resistance fighter dreams of bombings and martyrdom; an old man describes ...
Performance
2014 | 63 min | Love & Sex
Paula and Rodrigo are young, queer artists, like many others in Berlin. Outside of their utopian rehearsal room, they have to fight German red tape. Paula's and Rodrigo's drive to stand out leads them to form a performance collective. The rehearsal room is a space of utopias, but can they make it out the door? PERFORMANCE is a feature film by Hanna Bergfors Kornelia Kugler that plays with the conventions of fiction and documentation, what is on stage and what is at stake. "A life in no budget, ...