A meditation on social isolation and stillness, no other film depicts the painful repetitiveness of an immigrant's life with such candid detail.
A transitional work bridging Sohrab Shahid Saless' Iranian period and his extended stay in Germany, Far From Home offers a glimpse into a few days in the life of Husseyin (played by popular actor/director and the film’s co-producer Parviz Sayyad), a Turkish 'guest worker' in West Berlin.
The film features many elements characteristic of Shahid Saless’ oeuvre: trains, letters written and read, and the despairing sight of empty, unmade beds. The vanity of life is captured in dead moments, when even after a character has walked out the frame the camera lingers, staring into the vacuum and revealing a bleak vision of the world of the exploited and the rootless.
1975 Iran/Germany dir Sohrab Shahid Saless 91 mins, in Turkish and German with English subtitles
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Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.
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