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SHAHADA (FAITH)
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Completed - GERMAN - Drama - 89 minutes

Year of production : 2010

Director(s) : Burhan QURBANI
Cast : Maryam ZAREE, Carlo LJUBEK, Marija SKARICIC, Anne RATTE-POLLE

Producer(s) : Robert GOLD (Bittersuess Pictures), Susa KUSCHE (Bittersuess Pictures)

Synopsis

Berlin, today.
During a razzia for clandestine employees in a warehouse, the fates of three young German-born Muslims collide.
Ismail, a police officer of Turkish-descent, is about to break his loyalty towards his badge and his wife as he finds himself attracted to illegal immigrant Leyla. Sammi is torn between his Muslim faith and his irresistible desire for one of his male co-workers, despite his friends’ violent homophobia. He is appeased by the local Imam, a liberal religious leader revered by the community, who is going through a crisis of his own: his daughter, Maryam, is moving into an ultraconservative direction although she has been raised so tolerantly.
The three of them must find their place between faith and modern life in a contemporary western society, between the luring liberated lifestyle and tradition.

Production

Country(ies) : GERMANY

Financing plan : Co-produced by ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
In association with Hessen Invest.

BELGIUM Feb 02, 2011 IMAGINE FILM DI
FRANCE MEMENTO FILMS D
GERMANY Sep 30, 2010 3ROSEN GMBH
ITALY CINEAMA
NETHERLAND Apr 21, 2011 CONTACT FILM
TAIWAN ENCORE FILM CO.

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Festivals and Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2010 Competition


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