What sculpts identity? Is it the environment that shapes it or rather a self-determined step out of it? In my story I want to investigate the changing identities of my main characters, Said and Amin. Father and son are thrown into a new world, where they have to redefine their allocated roles and those towards each other. Said, who seeks recognition and self-determination by working for Western secret services, has made an irrevocable step. While Amin, who finds his father’s choice despicable, is confronted with the question of which world he wants to belong to.
The question, how the individual expresses his desire for self-determination within a polarized world, was what initially interested me. I believe my characters should not deny their origins. Rather than assimilating, I wish for them to shape their environment and surmount sociopolitical pressures.
I imagine the film like an intimate observation, character driven, yet on the verge to a spying perspective. Despite the film’s realism, I wish to use camera and sound in a subjective way, inspired by the film Un Prophète.