WENN GOTT SCHLÄFT
WHEN GOD SLEEPS
WHEN GOD SLEEPS depicts the journey of Iranian musician Shahin Najafi who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death, incensed by a rap song that focuses on the oppression of women, sexism and human rights abuses.
“I’m still in disbelief,” he says today. Yet he insists: “I will never apologize for my art.”
TRAILER
Director
TILL SCHAUDER’s award-winning films include: CITY BOMBER (short, 1996), STRONG SHIT (1998), SANTA SMOKES (2003), DUKE’S HOUSE (docu-drama, 2004), THE IRAN JOB (doc, 2013), THE YOUNG MAN AND THE SEA (2015), WARRIORS OF FAITH (doc, 2017), WHEN GOD SLEEPS (2017), and THE REGGAE BOYZ (in production).
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Genre
Music, Biopic, Art -
CATEGORY
Documentary -
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2017 -
DIRECTOR
Till Schauder -
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Till Schauder, Gerardo Milsztein -
PRODUCERS
Till Schauder, Sara Nodjoumi -
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Till Schauder Filmproduktion, in co-production with Partner Pictures -
RUNTIME
90 min -
LANGUAGE
German, English, Farsi -
FESTIVALS
Tribeca 2017, Krakow 2017, Munich 2017, UNHCR International Human Rights Japan 2017, IDFA 2017, Doc Lands San Francisco 2017, Calgary 2017, In-Edit Barcelona 2017, Two Riversides Poland 2017, Denver 2017, Southern Circuit Tour 2017, Guth Gafa IFF Ireland 2017, Sound Unseen Minneapolis 2017, Seeyousound Int. Music FF Torino 2018, Göteborg 2018, Istanbul Human Rights FF 2018, Prague One World 2018, Lola@Berlinale 2018 -
AWARDS
Golden Heynel Best Music Documentary Krakow 2017, Most Valuable Documentary Cinema For Peace 2017, Jury Award Sound Unseen Minneapolis 2017 -
SALES
Roco Films International
info@rocofilms.com
www.rocofilms.com -
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