IN RETROSPECT / RÜCKBLICKEND BETRACHTET (Germany, 2025, 15′)

Friday October 3rd, at 3 p.m., Cinema Massimo, Screen 3

National premiere

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International title: In Retrospect
Original title: Rückblickend Betrachtet
Director, Editing, Production: Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Screenplay: Kristina Kilian
Photography: Tobias Blickle
Sound: Hora Lunga

Migrant workers built a shopping center for the 1972 Munich Olympics. In 2016, that same venue became the scene of a racist shooting. «And now this hatred», a woman says at the end of Sohrab Shahid Saless’ Addressee Unknown (1983)

Daniel Asadi Faezi (Germany) and Mila Zhluktenko (Ukraine) both studied Documentary Film at the University of Television and Film in Munich. They directed several movies. Their latest work, Waking Up in Silence, was awarded Best Short Film by the International Jury at Berlinale’s Generation Kplus. Mila Zhluktenko’s previous short film, Aralkum, won the Jury Award for Best Short Film at the Visions du Réel Film Festival. They are currently working on their first long feature film.

Filmografia:
Daniel Asadi Faezi: Arefi, the Shepherd (doc, 2013), Kids of Tehran (doc, 2016), Observation of Hawks in the Sky (sf, 2016), In Search of (sf, 2017), The Absence of Apricots (mlf, 2018), Where We Used to Swim (doc, 2019), Slowly Forgetting Your Faces (doc, 2021), Kum (doc, 2022).

Mila Zhluktenko: I Love my #Hairlegs (sf, 2017), Find Fix Finish (doc, 2017), Opera Glasses (doc, 2019), Aralkum (sf, 2022).

Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko: Waking Up in Silence (sf, doc, 2023), In Retrospect (sf, doc, 2025).