EUROPA

By Haider RASHID

BERTA FILM - as PROD / CONS

Drama - Completed 2021

Kamal, a young Iraqi man trying to enter Europe on foot through the border between Turkey and Bulgaria is captured by Bulgarian border police. He manages to escape but is wounded and chased relentlessly and aggressively by a group of Bulgarian vigilantes calling themselves Migrant Hunters.

Festivals
& Awards

Cairo IFF 2019
Best feature film project
milano film network 2019
Proxima Award
Quinzaine des Realizateurs - Cannes Film Festival 2021
Beatrice Sartori Award
Nastri d'Argento, Nastro della legalità 2021
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Drama, Thriller
    • Countries
    • ITALY, USA, IRAQ
    • Languages
    • BULGARIAN, ENGLISH, ARABIC
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 75 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Haider RASHID
    • Writer(s)
    • Haider RASHID, Sonia GIANNETTO, Stefano MUTOLO
    • Producer(s)
    • Haider RASHID (Producer), Abdullah BOUSHAHRI (Executive Producer), Fabrizio GUARDUCCI (Co-Producer), Ivano FUCCI (Executive Producer), Stefano MUTOLO (Executive Producer)
    • Synopsis
    • Kamal, a young Iraqi man trying to enter Europe on foot through the border between Turkey and Bulgaria is captured by Bulgarian border police. He manages to escape but is wounded and chased relentlessly and aggressively by a group of Bulgarian vigilantes calling themselves Migrant Hunters. Kamal finds himself lost in a seemingly interminable forest: an underworld where rules and laws don’t exist. For three days and three nights Kamal must fight for his life as tension and violence between him and the hunters rise until a final, violent, life-or-death confrontation.
    • Partners & financing
    • Radical Plans, Fair Play (Producers), Berta Film (Executive Producers), AFAC - The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, ODU Movies, Beyond Dreams Productions Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Ministero della cultura MFN - Milano Film Network, Cairo International Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival, Accademia Cinema Toscana.