A documentary film by Edgar Hagen
Length: 110' Theatrical / 52' TV / 2 x 50' Doc series
Release planned for: May 2025
Why do so many people from the Middle East become refugees? With a legendary European TV reporter, I investigate the long-term effects of western interference in countries where war never ends.
With 40 years of experience in the Middle East, TV reporter Ulrich Tilgner returns to the conflict zones in Afghanistan, Iraq and Rojava in Syria. Together we meet witnesses, survivors and resistants to war and oppression. They want to stay in their homeland, but many have to leave. I question my own convictions and perspectives, being confronted with the consequences of US and European implications in this circle of violence. In these ongoing wars, women make the biggest sacrifices. But women also play an essential role in the hope for a self-determined society.
| Filming locations | Afghanistan, Iraq, Rojava in Syria, Jordan, Niger, Serbia, Greece, Switzerland |
| Produced by | Vollbild Film Ltd., Elsässerstrasse 248, 4056 Basel / Switzerland |
| Producers | Edgar Hagen, Mathias Hefel, Gudula Meinzolt |
| Editor | Christian Büttiker |
| Editor tutor | Audrey Maurion |
| Cinematographer | Börres Weiffenbach |
| Sound | Mathias Hefel, Jean-Pierre Gerth |
| Partners on board | Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Cantons of Basel-Stadt/Baselland, Schweizer Fernsehen SRF, SRG Succès passage antenne, Volkart Foundation, UBS Culture Foundation, other foundations and co-funders |
| Developped with the support of the dok.incubator workshop 2024 |