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IN RETROSPECT

1970. An entire small town is being built for the Summer Olympics in Munich. It includes a subway station, a stadium, a swimming pool, a residential area and the largest shopping mall in Europe at the time – the Olympia shopping mall. Many migrant workers, so-called “guest workers”, are employed on the construction site.

2016. Nine people are murdered in a right-wing terrorist attack at the Olympia shopping mall in Munich. All the victims have a migrant background.

1982. Sohrab Shahid Saless, an Iranian director, shoots a film in West Germany as a response to the rapid increase in racism. The characters in the film walk past houses, walls and facades smeared with far-right slogans. The colours flicker shrilly and fade again. IN RETROSPECT is an attempt to look back and search for connections that link a space and its history.


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Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
photos © Sebastian Huber
  • Genre
    Documentary
  • CATEGORY
    Short
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2025
  • DIRECTORS
    Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
  • SCREENPLAY
    Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    Tobias Blickle
  • PRODUCERS
    Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
  • RUNTIME
    14 min
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • FESTIVALS
    Berlinale 2025, Visions du Réel 2025, New Directors/New Films 2025, Vienna Shorts 2025, Documentary Film Festival Vancouver 2025
  • SALES
    Square Eyes – Wouter Jansen (Vienna, Austria)
    info@squareeyesfilm.com
  • Press kit (Download PDF)