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YABAN written & directed by Tareq Daoud
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An expatriate in Turkey, Claire pays the services of a smuggler to flee the country with her only daughter, whose custody she has just lost. But he abandons them in a dilapidated house in the middle of the forest. Isolation and despair slowly take their toll on Claire.
WORLD RIGHTS: IDIP Films, Geneva www.idipfilms.com
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WINTER 2020/21
SWITZERLAND / FRANCE / TURKEY Fiction, 82 min. ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French, Turkish CAST: Amira Casar, Khava Israpilova, Haydar Şişman, Doḡanay Ünal PRODUCTION: IDIP Films, Geneva / WAG PROD, Rennes / Ret Film, Istanbul / RTS SWISS PRODUCER: Xavier Derigo
TAREQ DAOUD * 1976 in Afghanistan. Forced to flee the war, Tareq Daoud’s family resettled in Switzerland in the 1980’s. After a Master degree in Biology from Geneva University, he studied cinema at EICTV in La Havana, Cuba. Author of several fiction shorts and a documentary, his works often engage in themes such as identity and exile. He lives and works in Istanbul since 2012. Shot in Northeastern Turkey, YABAN is his first feature-length fiction.
