Ein Augenblick Freiheit
Feature Film, AT/FR 2008, Farbe, 110 min., OmdU/OmeU
Diagonale 2009
Director: Arash T. Riahi
Script: Arash T. Riahi
Cast: Navid Akhavan,
Pourya Mahyari,
Fares Fares,
Payam Madjlessi,
Behi Djanati Ataï,
Johannes Silberschneider u.a.
Camera: Michi Riebl
Editor: Karina Ressler
Location Sound: Mohsan Nasiri
Music: Karwan Marouf
Production Design: Christoph Kanter
Costumes: Monika Buttinger
Producers: Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Ménégoz
Production: Wega-Film
Co-production: Les Films du Losange (FR)
Tragicomic and suspenseful, @i:Ein Augenblick Freiheit:i@ traces the odyssey of three groups of Iranian Kurd refugees. On the way to their hoped-for freedom they get stranded in an uninviting hotel in Ankara. The first moments of unutterable relief are all too brief. What follows is a gruelling wait, an emotional roller coaster ride between hope and disappointment. If the asylum application is refused, deportation follows, delivering some to certain death.