The Other Side of the River
TFI Suppport
Logline
Northern Syria. Hala, a young arab woman, flees her hometown of Manbij to escape the IS. After some months, Hala returns with women of the Kurdish movement to her hometown to help build a free society, in which women´s empowerment plays a significant role. She encounters resistance on all sides: from the traditional, patriarchal society, her family and even her own liberation movement.
Antonia Killian
Director/Cinematographer
Born in 1986 in Kassel. Studied Visual Communication as well as Art and Media at the Berlin University of Arts. Director and camerawoman for documentaries, experimental films, and feature films. Was awarded a Germany and DAAD scholarship. Since 2013, she has been a student of cinematography at the Film University in Potsdam Babelsberg and at the ISA in Havana, Cuba. Her current production is about a woman in the Syrian Civil War, which has allowed her participation in the ExOriente Workshop, and IDFAcedemy Summer School 2018.
Frank Müller
Producer
Born in 1969 in Mainz, Germany, Frank Müller is a film director and producer. After graduating from the Moscow Film School Vyshie kursy in 1995, he worked as director and producer for several commercials, music clips and documentaries in Moscow. In 2000, he founded the film production company Doppelplusultrain Hamburg, Germany. Since then, he has worked on several international filmproductions and joined several European documentary workshops and pitches. A EURODOC Graduate Producer (2015), fluent in English, German and Russian.
Guevara Namer
Creative Producer
Guevara is a Syrian photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. Her film “Morning Fears, Night Chants” premiered at IDFA (2012) and was broadcasted on Al Arabiyya and ARTE (2013). Namer is a co-founder of DOX BOX, and held the position of its academy manager and community moderator from 2014 to 2017. Namer worked as theproduction manager and line producer of several Syrian documentary films, suchas “Return to Homs” (2013) and “Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait” (2014).