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7:45 PM

Babai

Film|German Film Forum - Away from Home

  • Hong Kong Film Archive Cinema, Hong Kong

  • In various languages with English subtitles
  • HK$60/30* full time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above and people with disabilities and minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients.
  • Part of series: German Film Forum - Away from Home

Babai ©Goethe-Institut

Director: Visar Morina, 104mins, Germany/Kosovo/Republic of Macedonia/France, 2015
2015 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Best Director
2015 Munich Film Festival – One Future Prize for Direction, Young German Cinema Award for Screenwriting and Acting

Set in the 1990s, the film tells the moving story of a young boy embarking on a journey from pre-war Kosovo to Germany in order to find his father who has fled there. Ten-year old Nori and his father Gezim earn their living by selling cigarettes in pre-war Kosovo of the nineties. Gezim 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. Nori sets out on a perilous journey to find his father. A heart-wrenching and convincingly played father-and-son-drama about escape, responsibility and love.