Kaddisch fuer einen Freund by Leo Khasin



Ali is new to Berlin. He is a Lebanese refugee fighting for his legal stay in Germany. The local tough boys put him to a test of courage: breaking into the apartment of an elderly neighbour, a Jewish-Russian immigrant. After this Ali has to make amends with the old man to prevent his own deportation. A touching story on an unequal friendship.



"Using a tranquil narrative pace, the film manages to thematise guilt and forgiveness in the microcosm of a small-scale interpersonal encounter, against the background of a global conflict." 



(Excerpt from the German Film Quality Assessment Board's jury statement in awarding the film with the distinction "valuable")



G, 2010-11, 94 min, Leo Khasin