.mpeg proudly presents:
All roads lead to Afrin
Arina Adju, 2016, 35'
31.10.–24.11.2022
A young Moscow filmmaker visits her father in Afrin, Syria, on the other side of the thin line between war and peace. She crosses the border from Turkey to see him and meet his new family.
«A Russian girl, a Kurdish father. The father lives in Syria, in a town near the Turkish border. The girl joins him to meet her new family and... to find her lost roots. Everything moves forward in fragments, of time and of space. It is not only an aesthetic choice. It is a form consistent with the state of war, with the fragility of existences, with the capturing of reality by the body and by the spirit. But everything moves forward, in its way, carried along by a painful energy that obstinately perforates the borders. The strength of this film is its fragility, its being made of everything and of nothing, its being attached to a thread, that of the breathing of the person who is filming, who is carrying it on her shoulders, as is often the case in the life of people living in exile. Here therefore is a film built like a personal diary: a hybrid film, which weaves together the paths of two impossible returns, but also a moving film of tremulous beauty, pierced by moments of savage grace, which suddenly appear from nowhere.» (Luciano Barisone)
In the window of the moving picture experimental garage .mpeg, FILZ regularly presents video art. Located on Lützner Straße 39 in Leipzig, .mpeg operates daily from 7–11 pm.
Funded by:
Kulturamt der Stadt Leipzig
© Filmstills, All roads lead to Afrin, Arina Adju, 2016
