Sisters Apart

Im Feuer

61st TIFF: Greek premiere

Rojda, a German soldier and native Kurd, volunteers for a mission to train female Kurdish soldiers in Iraq to fight ISIS. No one must know that she is actually looking for her missing sister.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Daphne Charizani

Script: Daphne Charizani

Cinematography: Falko Lachmund

Editing: David J. Rauschning

Sound: Manuel Laval, Aris Athanasopoulos, Jörg Kidrowski

Music: Florian Tessloff

Actors: Almila Bagriacik, Zübeyde Bulut, Maryam Boubani, Christoph Letkowski, Gonca de Haas, Niels Bruno Schmidt, Lucas Prisor, Ceylan Bulus, Jyana Karami

Production: Pallas Film

Producers: Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Kostas Lambropoulos

Co-production: View Master Films, Greek Film Centre

Co-producers: Giorgos Kyriakos, Effie Skrobola

Sets: Thomas Freudenthal, Yula Zoiopoulou

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Greece, Germany

Production Year: 2020

Duration: 93'

Contact: The Match Factory Thania Dimitrakopoulou info@thematchfactory.com

Daphne Charizani

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, she grew up in Greece and Germany. She studied Stage Design in Paris, and Politics in Hamburg. Her documentary Make Up screened in the 1999 Berlinale Forum and won the Hessian Screenplay Award. In 2003, her feature film Madrid was nominated for the screenplay award in the New German Cinema section of the Munich Film Festival, and won the Hessian Film Award. With Ina Weisse she co-wrote the screenplays for Das Vorspiel and Der Architekt, the latter of which won the Screenplay Award at the 2009 Max Ophüls Award Film Festival.