Not at Home
A family in Kabul, consisting of two parents and four daughters, has just moved to a new home. Every day, the father curses his children for not following the old religious traditions. In the meantime, a young Afghan girl in a refugee centre in Germany starts to find her place. We follow her in her aimless daily routine, during which she builds up an understanding without words with a fellow refugee.
The resignation with which the residents of the refugee centre live their lives put on hold is not acted: they are playing themselves. In their feature debut, directors Shahrbanoo Sadat and Katja Adomeit mix fiction and documentary in a sophisticated way. In the fictitious part of the film – in the family’s new home in Kabul – the clash between tradition and inevitable progress is subtly captured in natural dialogues.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Afghanistan, Denmark, Germany
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 65'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
