PUYA – IM KREIS DER ZEIT

Puya, a German-Iranian who has lived in Germany for nearly thirty years, is trying – with difficulty – to make it as a filmmaker – so far to no avail. The path to a feature length film is long. So he makes his way as a wedding videographer and occasional actor. One day he encounters Nimrod, a protagonist of the script on which he is working feverishly. The figure, a German-Jewish doctor fleeing from the Nazi regime, now finds a home in Puya. First, Nimrod urges Puya to terminate the script and thus his suffering. But when Nimrod comes into contact with the current refugee crisis in Europe, he starts to become more and more interested in the present…

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Director

SHAHBAZ NOSHIR was born in 1959 in Iran and has been living in Germany since 1986. He studied Performance Theater in Berlin. Active as a freelance photographer, scriptwriter, actor and filmmaker, his films as a director include: the shorts GLASS EYES (1997), CAUGHT VOICE (2002), FEAR EATS SOUL (2002), WAITING (2004), SOIL TEMPTATIONS (2007), THAT MY HEART BEATS, I HAVE YOU TO THANK (doc, 2008), LONG WAY (2010), I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN (2011), OH ISTANBUL (doc, 2012), FADE OUT (2013), the art portrait of Peter Robert Keil ES MALT AUS MIR (2013), and the feature PUYA – IN THE CIRCLE OF TIME (2017).

Shahbaz Noshir photos © Noshir Film