Al-Shafaq - When the heavens split
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Al-Shafaq - When the heavens split |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Arabic , Kurdish , Swiss German , Turkish , German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Esen Işık |
| script | Esen Işık |
| production |
Brigitte Hofer , Cornelia Seitler |
| music | Marcel Vaid |
| camera | Gabriel Sandru |
| cut | Aurora Vögeli |
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Al Shafaq - When the sky splits is a movie of the Turkish-Swiss director Esen Işık from the year 2019 . After her multi-award-winning feature film debut Köpek - Tales from Istanbul (2015), Al-Shafaq is Esen Işık's second film. In the main roles the z. B. from the series 4 blocks known Kida Khodr Ramadan as well as Beren Tuna and Ismail Can Metin . Al-Shafaq premiered at the Hof International Film Festival in October 2019 . The title "Al-Shafaq" is Arabic and means "twilight / twilight".
action
The Kara family, dominated by the patriarch and devout father Abdullah, has lived in Zurich for a long time. While their eldest son Kadir and their daughter Elif have found their place in the Turkish family as well as in the western world, their youngest son Burak struggles with the lack of recognition of his father and his search for an identity between the worlds. Burak renounces the western world and begins to place the Koran at the center of his worldview. At first impressed by the strict religious nature of their son, Abdullah and Emine realize too late that Burak has already slipped away from them and is on the way to the “holy war”. The father sets out to look for his son in the Turkish-Syrian border area.
criticism
“Another great, polyphonic work. […] In “Al-Shafaq” the father, looking for his son, is confronted with his guilt when he meets the young Malik. The unusual circumstances of this encounter open his eyes and gradually allow a critical attitude towards his unconditional, rigid belief. In contrast to him, the mother lives and represents another form of faith, Islam. - A way of thinking about Islam and religion in general, still unfamiliar for many today. "
“The film thrives on the scenes in the small families, which, as in the case of Malik, are being torn apart by IS. But he also lives from the gloomy, helpless looks of his parents (Kida Khodr Ramadan and Beren Tuna) and from Burak's closed expression (in his first film role: Ismail Can Metin). What continues is trying to find a new valid equation. Perhaps this: speak trust. "
"Esen Işık, the Swiss-Turkish director, tells so nuanced that a general division into good and bad becomes impossible."
“The devout patriarch, who lost his son to the Islamic State, meets a Kurdish orphan whose parents were killed by these same troops: Others would have made a sentimental road movie about an unusual friendship from it. Esen Işik avoids such kitsch by breaking up the chronology quite wildly. "
Festivals & nominations
- World premiere at the 53rd Hof International Film Festival , 2019
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Swiss Film Award 2020: Nominated in the following categories:
- Best Actress ( Beren Tuna )
- Best Cinematography ( Gabriel Sandru )
- Nominated as best film for the 'Prix de Soleure' of the Solothurn Film Festival 2020
Web links
- Al Shafaq - When the sky splits in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Al-Shafaq on the Swissfilms.ch platform
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.hofer-filmtage.com Retrieved October 22, 2019.
- ↑ Hanspeter Stalder: [1] Retrieved on November 5, 2019.
- ↑ Katja Zellweger: [2] In: www.bka.ch , December 9, 2015. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
- ↑ Denise Bucher: [3] In: NZZ on Sunday , November 2, 2019. Retrieved on November 5, 2019.
- ↑ Florian Keller: [4] In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , October 31, 2019. Retrieved on November 5, 2019.
- ↑ The Night of Nominations for the Swiss Film Prize 2020 www.schweizerfilmpreis.ch. Retrieved January 27, 2020 '.