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.
- Directors
- Shahrbanoo Sadat, Katja Adomeit
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Countries of production
- Denmark, Afghanistan, Germany
- Year
- 2013
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 65'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Dari, German, Swahili, Arabic, Russian
- Producers
- Shahrbanoo Sadat, Katja Adomeit, Verena Gräfe-Höft
- Production Companies
- Adomeit Film, Junafilm, Wolf Pictures
- Sales
- Adomeit Film
- Screenplay
- Katja Adomeit, Shahrbanoo Sadat
- Cinematography
- Niels Buchholzer, Jamil Jallah, Jalal Hussaini, Morteza Shahed
- Editor
- Janina Gerkens
- Sound Design
- Kristoffer Salting, Brian Dyrby
- Cast
- Hilla Wali-Mohammad, Nikmal Dostakhel
- Website
- http://adomeitfilm.com/not-at-home