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XOFTEX
XOFTEX

• Director: Noaz Deshe
• GERMANY, FRANCE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 99’ / Arabic; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Noaz Deshe, Babak Jalali
• Director of Photography: Noaz Deshe
• Editing: Felipe Guerrero, Noaz Deshe
• Music: Thomas Moked-Blum, Noaz Deshe
• Cast: Abdulrahman Diab, Osama Hafiry, Jalal Albaroudi, Mouataz Alshaltouh
• Producer: Jordan Tappis, Beau Willimon, Andro Steinborn, Noaz Deshe
• Production Co.: Arden Film
• World Sales: Mad Solutions

2024 Karlovy Vary Special Mention
2024 Thessaloniki Best Director
2024 Agadir Special Mention

A surreal drama that covers comedy sketches to zombie film fantasies, Xoftex blends the harsh realism of refugee crises with the surrealism of being stuck between two worlds. Palestinian-Syrian teenager Nasser and his older brother Yassin have been living in a refugee camp in Greece, awaiting a decision on their asylum application. They pass the time recording comedy sketches, fantasizing of making zombie films and moving to Sweden. With nowhere to escape, boiling tensions within the camp’s seemingly impenetrable walls push Nasser to another world inside his mind. Xoftex is written by Noaz Deshe and Babak Jalali inspired by the true stories of a group of young men at the Softex refugee camp near Thessaloniki. Noaz Deshe’s debut feature is White Shadow, screened at the festival in 2014.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.