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.
Sisters Apart
Im Feuer
61st TIFF: Greek premiere
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.
Filmography
1999 Make Up
2002 Madrid
2020 Sisters Apart
