JUNCTIONPOINT

Haroon, has immigrated illegally to Germany, the German, Mark, dreams of emigrating. A car accident throw these two entirely different people together for one night.

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Clichés? Not a chance. Fernes Land merely brings together worlds that are more similar than one might expect.
Der Tagesspiegel

... But this authentic film is far too unsentimental and adult for that. It describes areality without the compulsion to offer solutions to problems everywhere.
Focus film

The beauty of this film is that a lot of is left unsaid. Love is just hanging in the air.
The Hindu

Authentic immigrant drama ... offers insight into a barely recognized aspect of the republic.
kino.de

As idiosyncratic as Kanwal Sethi‘s feature film debut is, with its sometimes fairytale-like charm, it encourages us to think about how we deal with immigration in Europe.
Zotty

The film‘s unsparing, almost documentary-like authenticity is reminiscent of American immigrant and gangster dramas.
Frankenpost

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YEAR
2012

STARRING
Atta Yaqub
Christoph Franken
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Karina Plachetka

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
Kanwal Sethi

PRODUCTION
Neufilm GmbH