Babai

Feature debut BABAI by writer-director Visnar Morina is a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of conflict-scarred Kosovo. The story of ten-year-old Nori plays out in early 1990s Kosovo, in Germany, and on the road between the two countries. His father Gezim dominates his entire world. Gezim, however, is a weak-willed outsider who uses his son to earn a meager living selling cigarettes on the street. He never wants to talk about why his wife left him, and one day he himself decides to abandon the boy and his former life for a naïve vision of Germany as a change for the better.

Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Creatives: Debut Films
  • Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
  • Kinoherz
  • Made in Germany
  • missingFILMs
  • Screen: Southeast Europe
  • Coming of Age

Actors

  • Val Maloku
  • Astrit Kabashi
  • Adriana Matoshi
  • Enver Petrovci
  • Xhevdet Jashari
  • Stephen Chang

Director

  • Visar Morina

Drama


1h 44min


12 FSK

SQ


DE

Germany
Kosovo
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
2015
Nori lives alone with his father in Kosovo and sells cigarettes on the street. After an accident he wakes up alone in the hospital.

Nori lives alone with his father in Kosovo and sells cigarettes on the street. After an accident he wakes up alone in the hospital.


Feature debut BABAI by writer-director Visnar Morina is a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of conflict-scarred Kosovo. The story of ten-year-old Nori plays out in early 1990s Kosovo, in Germany, and on the road between the two countries.


His father Gezim dominates his entire world. Gezim, however, is a weak-willed outsider who uses his son to earn a meager living selling cigarettes on the street. He never wants to talk about why his wife left him, and one day he himself decides to abandon the boy and his former life for a naïve vision of Germany as a change for the better.

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