When:
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 6:30p -
9:00p

Where:
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
joyraft.host59600 Karin Oehlenschlager

Categories:
Date Idea, Good for Groups, Movies, Rainy Day Ideas

Event website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=24438706

First, there’s a dead rat hanging on the door of the house where Xhafer lives with his wife and children. Then the emails he sends are 'accidentally' no longer being received. The signs that this pharmaceutical engineer is being bullied and harassed in his workplace are increasing. Even if neither his wife nor his colleagues seem to believe him, this man, who is originally from Kosovo but who has been well integrated for years, feels more and more outcast from his (German) community. Or is he losing touch with reality?

In his second feature-length film, director Visar Morina dissects the psychological effects of social exclusion and presents them here as an interplay between belonging and alienation. Morina combines subtle images that gradually shift according to his protagonist’s state with meticulous performances from his ensemble, to describe the importance of personality when it comes to integrating into another society, and how quickly cracks can develop in the supposedly firm construct that is identity.

Director: Visar Morina

Germany/Belgium/Kosovo 2020

DVD, 121 min.

German, Albanian with English Subtitles

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwi9Rf6CkUY

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