DirectorAli TamimCountryGermanyYear2025World premiereCairo International FIlm Festival — International PanoramaLength80 minLanguageGerman, Arabic, TurkishWriterAli TamimProduction companySchuldenberg Films, in coproduction with Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, RBBProducer(s)Lisa Marie WischerCastMeriam Abbas, Joyce Sanha, Steven Adjei Sowah, Doğa Gürer, Nils Kahnwald, Luise Hart, Oscar HoppeDoPLea PechEditingGerard CanadasMusicFelix RömerKeywordsImmigration, racial tensions, social justice, identity, grief, systemic prejudice, police violence

When Noah dies after a police stop-and-search operation, a fateful night unfolds. For his mother, the struggle against grief and the walls of bureaucracy begins on the way to the hospital. Two friends who live in the same neighbourhood as Noah are consumed by rage after learning of his death and seek an outlet for their anger. And Ibrahim, a police officer, becomes a witness to the grave mistakes his unit makes due to prejudice.

press kit
  • World Premiere: Cairo International Film Festival — International Panorama
  • German Premiere: 47th Max Ophüls Preis — International Competition

About the Director

Ali Tamim was born in Berlin in 1988. He grew up in Neukölln and graduated from high school at a comprehensive school in Kreuzberg. This was followed by a law degree at the Freie Universität of Berlin, which he successfully completed with the first state examination. In 2015, he applied for the bachelor in directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and was accepted in the same year. During his studies, he realized films that cast a critical eye on Germany, as well as his own life reality. Since 2020, Ali has been studying film directing in the master‘s program at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Noah is his graduation film.