BABAI by Visar Morina 104 min, DCP, 1:2,35, color, Dolby 5.1, 2015 Produced by NiKo Film (GER), Produksioni Krusha (KS), Skopje Film Studio (MK)

Eaux Vives Productions (FR)

Supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Kosova Cinematography Center Filmförderungsanstalt FFA, Nordmedia, Macedonian Film Fund Cinéma du Monde CNC

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Festivals & Awards: Karlovy Vary IFF 2015: Official Competition – Crystal Globe for Best Director in “Official Competition” / Europa Cinemas Label, Munich IFF 2015: New German Cinema Competition - One Future Prize / German Cinema New Talent Awards for Best Screenplay – Visar Morina, Best Director – Visar Morina, Best Actor - Astrit Kabashi & Val Maloku, Motovun IFF 2015: Official Competition, Avvantura Zadar IFF 2015: Official Competition - Award for Best Male Role, Helsinki IFF 2015, Reykjavik IFF 2015: New Vision, Busan IFF 2015: Flash Forward, BFI London IFF 2015: Dare section

“It had us spellbound, moved and overwhelmed” 33rd Munich Film Festival Jury

SYNOPSIS Ten-year old Nori and his father Gezim earn their living by selling cigarettes in pre-war Kosovo of the nineties. Gezim will hear nothing of Nori’s mother. He is an expert at escaping the past and now he wants to flee Kosovo, without Nori. But the boy tries everything in his means to prevent his dad from leaving. An accident results. The shocked father takes Nori to the hospital. When Nori gets out, his father is gone. Angry, yet determined, Nori sets out on a perilous journey and indeed finds his father in Germany. With the persistence only a child can have, he confronts his father with leaving him behind.

“ Babai is a masterpiece from a young master for whom we have great respect and gratitude ”

33rd Munich Film Festival Jury

BIOGRAPHY - VISAR MORINA Visar Morina was born in 1979 in Prishtina, Kosovo. In 2009, he graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany, with the film DEATH BY SUFFOCATION. This award-winning short premiered at the Max Ophüls Prize and was broadcast by ARTE TV. His last short OF DOGS AND WALLPAPER had its premiere in International Competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2013, and was nominated for the German Short Film Award 2014. BABAI is his first feature. FILMOGRAPHY - VISAR MORINA 2013 „Of Dogs and Wallpaper“ - Short 2010 „Death by Suffocation“ - Short 2008 „Sirens“ – Short

CAST & CREW Written & directed by Visar Morina DoP Matteo Cocco Editor Stefan Stabenow Sound Igor Popovski Music Benedikt Schiefer Prod. Designer Jutta Freyer Costumes Genoveva Kylburg Make-up Astrid Weber Line Producer Katja Morgeneier Production Manager Claudia Schurian Editorial Team Andrea Hanke

(WDR) Georg Steinert (ARTE)

Produced by NiKo Film (GER),

Produksioni Krusha (KS), Skopje Film Studio (MK), EauxVives Productions (FR)

Producer Nicole Gerhards Co-producer Visar Krusha,

Tomi Salkovski, Xénia Maingot Cast Val Maloku

(Nori) Astrit Kabashi

(Gezim) Adriana Matoshi (Valentina) Enver Petrovci (Adem) Xhevdet Jashari (Bedri) Alban Ukaj (Smuggler)