YUNAN

GERMANY, CANADA, ITALY, PALESTINE, QATAR, JORDAN, SAUDI ARABIA | 2025 | COLOR | DCP | 124’ | GERMAN, ARABIC

A Syrian author, tormented by a cryptic parable in his dreams, sees his loneliness manifest itself in a writer's block. Disappointed, he decides to retreat to a remote island near the North Sea, where the only inhabitants are an enigmatic woman (the legendary Hanna Schygulla in yet another great performance) and her coarse son. Despite his initial distrust, this mysterious encounter will prove decisive for his life. Already recognized in arthouse circles, the young Syrian director presents the second part of his trilogy about his homeland. With his established and utterly magnetic style in full bloom, he insists on the power of grand images and the intensity of silence, crafting an atmospheric “tarkovskian” canvas where wild nature perfectly complements the field of internal conflicts. Th.K.

DIRECTOR: Ameer Fakher Eldin
SCREENWRITER: Ameer Fakher Eldin
DoP: Ronald Plante
MUSIC: Suad Bushnaq
EDITOR: Ameer Fakher Eldin
PRINCIPAL CAST: Georges Khabbaz, Hanna Schygulla, Ali Suliman, Sibel Kekilli, Tom Wlaschiha, Nidal Al Achkar

AMEER FAKHER ELDIN

Now based in Germany, the writer and director was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1991, son of Syrian parents from the Golan Heights. His debut feature film "The Stranger" premiered at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival where it won the Edipo Re Award. The film went on to become the official Palestinian entry for the Academy Awards.

FILMOGRAPHY
2025 Yunan
2021 The Stranger