Babai

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Visar Morina, Germany/Kosovo, 2015, 104min, In German, Albanian, Serbian, English, with English Subtitles
Winner, Best Director, Label Europa Cinema, Karlovy Vary FF 2015; One Feature Prize, Young German Cinema Award, Munich FF 2015
Saturday, 4 November 2017, 9:15 PM, Canadian Premiere

Ten-year- old Nori (Val Maloku) and his father Gezim (Astrit Kabashi) roam the streets of Kosovo selling
cigarettes and barely earning a living. Only a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gezim is lured
west to Germany, leaving his son behind in search of a new life. Feeling deserted and desperate to claim
some sense of stability, Nori embarks on a dangerous journey to Germany in search of his father. His
tenacity, resilience, and sheer grit must be enough to guide him.