Nasim

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Nasim

Nasim
Ole Jacobs, Arne Büttner
German Competition 2021
Documentary Film
Germany
2021
120 minutes
Dari,
French,
Greek,
Persian (Farsi)
Subtitles: 
German Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing, English

For eight months, Ole Jacobs’s and Arne Büttner’s film team followed the Afghan Nasim and her family in the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, where at times 20,000 people had to live in a space designed for less than 3,000 people. This documentary observation shows with great empathy the daily life of the mother of two who time and again manages to deal impressively with the challenges of this unacceptable and extreme situation.

Nasim previously lived with her family in Iran, where she had already endured discrimination. Her marriage is broken; the camera gingerly captures the mute conflicts with her husband – glances tell everything. Nasim suffers from rheumatism and can hardly move her hands, but she finds loving words to explain this – to her own children and others from over the way. For a while, she even fills in for the school teacher who has left: “Today we will be painting …” She herself, however, is denied the understanding she always shows for others: Everyone around her thinks they know better what she needs. When the camp goes up in flames in September 2020, every hope of a better world seems lost. Nasim is left to fend for herself – but perhaps this new disaster is a chance in disguise.
Borjana Gaković

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Director
Ole Jacobs, Arne Büttner
Cinematographer
Arne Büttner
Editor
Janina Herhoffer
Producer
Ray Peter Maletzki, Ayla Güney, Stephan Helmut Beier
Co-Producer
Ole Jacobs, Arne Büttner
Sound
Ole Jacobs, Azadeh Zandieh
Performer
Nasima Tajik
Winner of: DEFA Sponsoring Prize, ver.di Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness