Director : Sudabeh Mortezai
Script : Sudabeh Mortezai
Photographer : Klemens Hufnagl
Editing : Olivier Neumann
Sound : Atanas Tcholakov
Music : Christine Cham, Christopher Khoo
Actors : Ramasan Minkailov, Aslan Elbiev, Kheda Gazieva, Rosa Minkailova, Iman Nasuhanowa, Askhab Umaev
Production : Freibeuter Films
Distributor :
Memento Films
9 cité Paradis
75010 Paris
tél : 01 53 34 90 39
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www.memento-films.com
Year : 2014
Screening : 2023
DCP, Color, 98 mn, OV german, arabic SUBFR
Official Competition Berlinale 2014
At 11, Ramasan is already a grown man under his little boy’s appearance. As refugees in Austria with his mother and two sisters, he tries to replace as best he can his father who has died in Tchetchenie... the arrival of Issa, an old friend of his father’s, is going to disrupt his day-to-day life. “My idea was to illustrate the key-word “integration” from the refugee viewpoint. When they talk about integration, especially in the media, it’s seen from the outside: the migrants are the subject of debate, but they never get the chance to say what they think. My aim, equally because as a child I went through this process of migration and inte- gration, was to present the situation from the inside... I was also interested in what the psychologists call “parentification”. It deals with this weight often borne by the children in an immigrant family: they are forced to grow up too quickly and take on responsibility beyond their age and maturity. They learn the language of the host country more quickly than their parents, so in fact it’s they who act as translators and even mediators between their parents and the new society around them.” Sudabeh Mortezai