House without a roof (film)

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Movie
Original title House without a roof
Country of production Germany , Iraq
original language German , Kurdish
Publishing year 2016
length 124 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Soleen Yusef
script Soleen Yusef
production Mehmet Aktas ,
Jana Raschke
camera Stephan Burchardt
cut Hannes Bruun
occupation

Haus ohne Dach is a German-Kurdish film drama by Soleen Yusef , which premiered on June 28, 2016 at the Munich Film Festival and was presented since August 25, 2016 as part of the Montreal World Film Festival , where the film won the Special Grand Prix of the jury was awarded.

action

The siblings Alan, Jan and Liya, who were born in Kurdistan but grew up in Stuttgart , want to fulfill their mother's last wishes. She wanted to be buried in her Kurdish hometown next to her father, who was killed in the Iraq war under the regime of Saddam Hussein .

On their trip to the Kurdish part of Iraq, the siblings are confronted not only with their relatives, who disagree with their mother's last wish, but also with the fact that in recent years she has distanced herself spiritually from her old home and have now all started their very own lives. There are also differences between the siblings. The conflicts in their homeland, which has become alien to them, are coming to a head, and their precarious journey is heading for catastrophe.

production

Staff and funding

The director took Soleen Yusef , the in Dohuk was born in Iraq in the Kurdish region. When Yusef was nine years old, her family fled to Germany for political reasons. Yusef took singing and acting lessons in Berlin and worked at the same time as a production, directing and sales assistant. From 2008 Yusef studied directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . House without a roof is Yusef's graduation film. Yusef also wrote the script for the film.

Their old hometown Dohuk has become completely alien to Alan, Jan and Liya in the film, but they too

It is in house without a roof to a SWR co-production . Jana Raschke and Igor Dovgal received the New German Cinema Award in the Production category . The jury's reasoning was: “The producers Jana Raschke and Igor Dovgal, together with their partner Mehmet Aktas and the writer and director Soleen Yusef, have succeeded in creating a powerful film with great characters that we can follow on a journey to war-torn Kurdistan Experience how old wounds break open, what is hushed up is suddenly uttered and how siblings who were strangers get together again. ”The jury adds that the producers had to create a film with few resources under difficult conditions.

Filming

The shooting took place in Dohuk , the capital of the Dahuk Governorate in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in Iraq , where Yusef was born. On May 25, 2015, shooting ended after 37 days. The film was the first international production that could be shot in the region since the war of the radical Islamic militias in summer 2014 .

publication

The film premiered on June 28, 2016 at the Munich Film Festival and was presented from August 25, 2016 as part of the Montreal World Film Festival . In September 2016 the film was presented at the 4th Duhok International Film Festival, where it was later awarded the audience prize in the Kurdish Cinema competition. In October 2016 the film was shown at the Independent FilmFest Osnabrück and was awarded the Peace Film Prize there. In June 2017 the film will be shown in the Focus Germany section of the Shanghai International Film Festival . The film was released in German cinemas on August 31, 2017.

reception

Reviews

House without a roof was positively received by the critics despite minor shortcomings. Jenni Zylka from SPIEGEL Online, for example, said that the story was picking up speed in the direction of the typical root search genre, but luckily, thanks to the Kurdish-German director Soleen Yusef, it was going a completely different and less well-trodden path. She praised the portrayal of the characters: This is how "authentic characters create the film's charm: the gruff gas station boys with their generous father, who selflessly entertains the siblings and invites them to spend the night on his stone veranda under the stars; who at first glance loyal to the regime, then." but highly sensitive policeman; the wise shepherd; the pushy but kind-hearted taxi driver - without falling into stereotypes, Yusef draws a credible picture of the situations with a close look and short dialogues. "

The journalist and historian Nils Michaelis from the newspaper vorwärts saw an unusual road movie in House Without a Roof , in which the director avoids "idyllizing the country and its people or painting them in overly dramatic colors. Rather, the film tries to give an impression of everyday life." Michaelis praises Soleen Yusef for "keeping her calm and precise look, with which she tells of the horrors of the past and the present." Leyla Yenirce from the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel builds on Michaelis's observation by praising Soleen Yusef for her approach to the film: "Despite the difficult political background, Yusef hits a serious but humorous tone and incidentally shows that a film is The history of Kurdistan does not have to be told in an exclusively melancholy and painful way. It not only makes an important contribution to Kurdish cinema, but also shows new perspectives in German cinema. "

Markus Raska from the weekly magazine ZITTY also praised Youssef. In her wonderful debut, he "not only manages to mirror the political in private, she also creates an atmosphere full of fine humor and gentle poetry through the roles that are drawn with a lot of warmth right down to the secondary characters. In contrast to many other films by and about this restless area of ​​the world refers them to the good in people despite the cruel abysses, which are never far away here either. "

Sabine Fischer from the Stuttgarter Zeitung praised, on the one hand, the inner development of the protagonists, told with "astonishingly great empathy and an eye for the tragedy of barely visible moments", and on the other hand, the clever embedding of set pieces from world history, which in a subtle way gives a glimpse The overall picture is widened, which for many viewers would otherwise only consist of television reports and abstract figures. Fischer also saw an autobiographical film by Soleen Yusef in Haus ohne Dach : "In her family drama" Haus ohne Dach ", the Kurdish-German director Soleen Yusef [...] impressively tells of the exhausting search for identity of her generation - with a clear narrative voice and a sharp eye for the inner struggles of their characters. […] The unequal siblings cleverly personalize different stages of the search for identity that so many migrant children face: Liya, the conformist. Alan, the lost. Jan, the tradition-conscious. Three people, three strategies to deal with the question of who exactly you are. And Yusef tries to answer that by letting the three worlds collide with one another with a great thump. " In this context, director Soleen Yusef noted in an interview with Deutschlandradio Kultur at the end of August 2017: "I always see the film as a kind of patchwork of many stories from my environment. The relationship between siblings and the conflict with parents is, I think, very autobiographical. Everything else is a kind of storytelling from a whole place, so to speak, which has somehow been woven together to form a family biography. "

Knut Elstermann from MDR Kultur saw an astonishing unity and great emotional power in Soleen Yusef's debut film, which is mainly due to the fact that the director concentrates entirely on her characters. She accompanies these torn people with great inner sympathy on this dangerous journey and, as if by the way, conveyed deeper insights into the desperate situation of the country. The Hamburger Abendblatt saw the Kurdistan - Odyssey of the Sibling Protagonists on the one hand a kind of road trip, and on the other hand a sometimes very stressful drama that was created under difficult shooting conditions, which is also interesting for German cinema viewers. And the jury of the First Steps Awards judged: "A Kurdish homeland film, free of clichés, funny, touching - and a different view of the people who are called" refugees "."

Ulrich Sonnenschein from epd Film says that you don't look at the film under what conditions and with what budget it was made: “Strong characters, sparse but accurate dialogues and a movement that lasts for almost two hours, the concept is well thought out and convincing. “When Soleen Yusef had to find strong images, according to Sonnenschein, she looked for them in people's faces, because with all the fascination for the place, with all the closeness to home and the longing for her own country, she was primarily concerned with feeling of togetherness. Michael Heins from programmkino.de, the cinema magazine of the German art house, film art and art house cinemas, complained about a not always successful balance between hint and exaggeration, which seems too well-known, too much based on variations of narrative patterns, too deliberate and deliberate. Nevertheless, he attested to the film that the somewhat vague narration would become a strength, "which in the end contributes to the fact that" house without a roof "is about the war in eastern Turkey and the fate of the Kurds in an emotional but not intellectual way tells the region "Verene Schmöller from the portal for film and cinema kino-zeit.de said the house without a roof is a film because the image is very important. She writes: "The milieus and political conditions that shape the film as well as the in-between the German and Kurdish culture make the film something special. They take the viewer on a journey into a foreign culture, they give them a unique tonality and, as she says, arouse memories and a feeling of home in the director. […] And it is above all the images with which Yusuf convinces: long shots, which show the barren but impressive landscape, alternate with close-ups that make the figures torn to and fro visible. "

Use in school lessons

Vision Kino , an initiative for film and media education in schools, sees a possible use of film in the subjects of German , history, social studies , ethics , geography and psychology. About the starting points for the educational work, Christopher Diekhaus says that one could take a closer look at the socio-political background associated with the family history outlined, specifically the Iraq war, the fall of Saddam Hussein and the strengthening of Islamist forces, which continue to cause terror in the area, but also spread beyond that.

Awards

Duhok International Film Festival 2016

  • Awarded the audience award in the Kurdish Cinema competition

Munich Film Festival 2016

First Step Award 2016

  • Awarded the main prize in the main category full-length feature film ( Soleen Yusef )

Montreal World Film Festival 2016

  • Awarded the Special Grand Prix of the jury

Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival 2017

  • Nomination for the Aurora Award (Soleen Yusef)

Independent FilmFest Osnabrück 2016

  • Awarded the Peace Film Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for house without a roof . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 168258 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b House without a roof In: swr.de, accessed on September 9, 2016.
  3. ^ House without a roof In: crew-united.com. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ Last clip for the German-Kurdish film "Haus ohne Dach" In: cinema.arte.tv, May 25, 2015.
  5. ^ House without a roof In: filmfest-muenchen.de. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  6. ↑ House Without Roof ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: duhokiff.com. Retrieved November 8, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / duhokiff.com
  7. ↑ Heimatdrama "Haus ohne Dach": Not a bit of peace , SPIEGEL Online. Retrieved September 3, 2017. 
  8. ^ A b Nils Michaelis: Film tip "House without a roof": On a chaos tour through Kurdistan , Vorwärts - newspaper of the German social democracy since 1876. September 1, 2017. Accessed September 3, 2017. 
  9. ↑ Kurdish cinema: Heimatfilm ohne Heimat , Der Tagesspiegel. August 31, 2017. Accessed September 3, 2017. 
  10. ^ Road movie House without a Roof , ZITTY - The weekly magazine for Berlin. August 29, 2017. Accessed September 3, 2017. 
  11. ^ A b c Movie review: House without a roof - migrants looking for identity in Iraq . Stuttgart newspaper. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  12. ↑ Soleen Yusef - "House without a roof": Patchwork of many storiesSoleen Yusef - "House without a roof" Patchwork of many stories - Soleen Yusef in conversation with Dieter Kassel , Deutschlandradio Kultur. August 31, 2017. Accessed September 3, 2017. 
  13. ↑ Knut Elstermann: Film start: "House without a roof": "Debut film with great emotional power" . MDR. August 30, 2017. Archived from the original on September 3, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  14. ^ A family road trip through dangerous Kurdistan , Hamburger Abendblatt. August 31, 2017. Accessed September 3, 2017. 
  15. ↑ The winners of the FIRST STEPS Awards 2016 . German Film Academy in partnership with ARRI , Mercedes-Benz , ProSiebenSat.1 TV Germany , UFA and Warner Bros . Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  16. ↑ First Steps Award: "House without a roof" honored . Southwest Broadcasting. September 20, 2016. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  17. ↑ a b review on Haus ohne Dach , epd film. August 28, 2017. Accessed September 3, 2017. 
  18. ↑ Film criticism House without a Roof , Programmkino.de - The cinema magazine of the German art house, film art and art house cinemas. Retrieved September 3, 2017. 
  19. ↑ House without a roof . Portal for film and cinema kino-zeit.de. August 31, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  20. ↑ House without a roof. In: visionkino.de. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  21. ↑ Duhok IFF 2016 Closing Ceremony In: duhokiff.com, September 19, 2016.
  22. ↑ Awards & Prize Winners In: filmfest-muenchen.de. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  23. ↑ Christiane Peitz: 'First Steps'-Gala under the sign of responsibility In: Der Tagesspiegel, September 20, 2016.
  24. ^ The Montreal World Film Festival In: filmfestivals.com. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  25. ↑ 'House without a Roof' by Soleen Yusef wins Osnabrück Peace Film Prize In: filmfest-osnabrueck.de, October 23, 2016.