Aboozar Amini : 2015
Ali and his younger brother, together with their parents, are life-long immigrants from Afghanistan. They have just arrived in Turkey as refugees. Every day they go to school and work the rest of the day as shoe shiners on the street. Both have one dream in common: work hard to save money and go after their uncle Kakay who has not been traced since he left Turkey with the trafficker for the West. A great deal of their earnings goes towards the rent. One day they find that another kid has occupied their working spot for shoe shining. A fight breaks out and they kick the other boy badly. Since the fight, the peace and innocence of their lives as children disappears. More sadly, Ali's childhood is gone for good when he sees that the boy they kicked is a Syrian refugee and has the same destiny as them. The film's title is inspired by the notes of Walter Benjamin on the Paul Klee painting Angelus Novus – the Angel carries history but still dreams of flying forward. Neither history nor the future can take the heavy weight of daily life from the Angel's shoulders. Aboozar Amini's short premiered in the As Long As It Takes section at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015.
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