
A Kurdish-Syrian immigrant in Germany; caught between his job caring for an elderly German woman and his mother's WhatsApp voice notes as she tries to send him a taste of the homeland, he finds himself lost."
An elderly care agency in Germany assigns Khalil, a Kurdish Syrian immigrant, to care for a lonely German woman in her home in Essen; he finds himself submerged in his mother’s voice recordings coming via WhatsApp from the mountains of Afrin, as she describes the details of making 'Makdous' and her insistence on finding a way to send it to him despite the wartime siege.
The film's tagline is: "A Kurdish-Syrian immigrant in Germany; caught between his job caring for an elderly German woman and his mother's WhatsApp voice notes as she tries to send him a taste of the homeland, he finds himself lost.""
The production budget was $34.5K.
The film was directed by Jwan Abdo.
The screenplay was written by Jwan Abdo and Ibrahim Yesilbas.

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Germany
$34,500