Babai

Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • coming of age
  • Creatives: Debut Films
  • Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
  • Kinoherz
  • Made in Germany
  • missingFILMs
  • Screen: Southeast Europe

Actors

  • Val Maloku
  • Astrit Kabashi
  • Adriana Matoshi
  • Enver Petrovci
  • Xhevdet Jashari
  • Stephen Chang

Director

  • Visar Morina

Drama

1h 44min

12 FSK

Germany
Kosovo
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
2015

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DE

Feature debut BABAI by writer-director Visnar Morina is a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of conflict-scarred Kosovo. The story of ten-year-old Nori plays out in early 1990s Kosovo, in Germany, and on the road between the two countries.

Feature debut BABAI by writer-director Visnar Morina is a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of conflict-scarred Kosovo. The story of ten-year-old Nori plays out in early 1990s Kosovo, in Germany, and on the road between the two countries.


His father Gezim dominates his entire world. Gezim, however, is a weak-willed outsider who uses his son to earn a meager living selling cigarettes on the street. He never wants to talk about why his wife left him, and one day he himself decides to abandon the boy and his former life for a naïve vision of Germany as a change for the better.

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