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Film discussion with editor Andreas Menn at all screenings
Muslim life in Germany. Two camps collide here: on the one hand, people with a migrant background who have been living in Germany for a long time, and on the other, people who have probably only come to Europe in recent years and are still waiting to finally arrive in society. For the duration of a day of filming, everyone is still a team, a ‘we’ that stands up for each other, but then there comes a moment that shatters this illusion and reveals the discrepancy between these two groups.
Elif is working as second assistant director on the set of German-Turkish director Yigit's new film, in which his wife Lilith is also involved both in front of and behind the camera. The film deals with the arson attack in Solingen in 1993, which is re-enacted in one of the key scenes. Several men from a nearby refugee home have been hired as extras. They are happy for the change in their daily routine, but are anything but thrilled when they come across a burnt Koran during filming.
Shortly after filming ends, Elif loses the key to Lilith's flat, where she was staying for the duration of the shoot, and eventually some of the film reels disappear, without which the film cannot be completed. While Elif tries to minimise the damage, the situation surrounding the burnt Koran escalates when Mustafa, one of the extras, makes serious accusations against Yigit, especially after Yigit suspects his flatmate Said, also one of the extras, of theft.
