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Original name: Xoftex
English name: Xoftex
Year: 2024
Run time: 99 minutes
Language: German
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Germany, France
Director: Noaz Deshe
Producer: Andro Steinborn
Cast: Abdulrahman Diab, Osama Hafiry, Mohamad Al Rashi, Amal Omran, Jalal Albaroudi, Lujain Mustafa
Screenplay: Noaz Deshe, Babak Jalali
Cinematographer: Noaz Deshe
Editor: Felipe Guerrero, Noaz Deshe
Sound Designer: Lars Ginzel, Oliver Achatz, Louise Hofmann
Music Composer: Thomas Moked Blum, Noaz Deshe
Costume Designer: Laila Bayazed, Greta Engelhardt, Tattiana Jung, Gibran Macias
Production Designer: Marita Götz, Lea Walloschke
Production Company: Arden Film GmbH
World Sales: MAD Sales & Distribution
Noaz Deshe works as a director, DOP and musician. He composed the soundtrack of Babak Jalali’s Frontier Blues, And was the cinematographer of the Tiger winner - Radio Dreams.
His debut feature film White Shadow about the hunting of a young Albino won the Lion of the Future Award at Venice Film Festival and was showcased at Sundance Film Festival.
Xoftex is his second feature film. In addition to his artistic work, he has worked as a volunteer on sea rescue missions and in refugee camps.
Xoftex is a Greek refugee camp, where Syrian and Palestinian asylum seekers anxiously wait for news of their refugee status. To pass the time between interviews with the immigration office, Nasser and his friends film satirical sketches and make preparations for a zombie horror flick. Except that the reality of the camp could be taken for a horror scenario itself. The tension between its inhabitants gains momentum and every conflict removes one more brick from the wall which divides reality from dream – or, indeed, nightmare. Fragments of real life, humour, and the unimaginable suffering of people risking their lives to escape their own country, merge into an explosive, at times, surreal spectacle which invites the viewers to immerse themselves in the story and the lives of immigrants in a way they will never have experienced before.
