Waking Up in Silence / Im Stillen erwachen

German Cinema

 

2023 Germany, Ukraine 18 min. Language: German, Ukrainian Subtitle: Czech, English

 

This film screens As part of the program Waking Up in Silence + We Call Her Hanka. To buy tickets To this program click here.

 

Children running between houses in the sunlight. At first glance, it seems like an everyday scene, except that the group of Ukrainian children is in Germany with refugee status because of the war in their country. The seemingly carefree moments of play are disrupted by its touches in the form of phone calls with their fathers at the front... Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi's sensitively conceived, poetic documentary, Waking Up in Silence, premiered at Berlinale. The duo of authors has already co-created an experimental film, Aralkum (2022), which won the Jury Prize at Visions du Réel.

 

DIRECTED BY Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi

CINEMATOGRAPHY Tobias Blickle

SOUND Daniel Asadi Faezi, Andrew Mottl

PRODUCERS Mila Zhluktenko (Lotas Film), Daniel Asadi Faezi (Daniel Asadi Faezi)

SCREENPLAY Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko

EDITING Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi

MUSIC Anton Baibakov

CO-PRODUCER Andrii Kotliar (Babylon’13)