Documentary
New Talent

PARADIES!, PARADIES!

Filmplakat für den Film "Paradies! Paradies!" mit einer gelben Sonne im Hintergrund, roten Bombensymbolen oben und grünen Gebäuden unten, Auszeichnungen rechts oben und Textangaben zu Regisseur und Produzenten.

In 1991 Kurdwin Ayub and her parents were forced to flee from Iraq. Years later her father (Omar) is homesick and has decided to visit relatives in his hometown of Dohuk again, but this time in order to purchase property there. With a camera in hand, Kurdwin accompanies her father on visits with relatives, real estate agents, and even soldiers in a war zone within reach of the IS. The places and people they encounter repeatedly call into question Omar’s glorified picture of Kurdistan, a place he calls “Paradise”.

Data

aka: Wrecking Ball Iraq
Category: Documentary, New Talent
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: Digital Video, 90 Min
Funding Film Institute: 134.000 €
Share of total production costs: 61 %
Television investment: 70.000 €
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 03.04.2022
Viewers: 25.000
Film location: Iraq, Vienna
Shooting time: April - June 2015
Days of shooting: 50
Completion: Spring 2016
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Wien Kulturabteilung

Credits

Production: Rudolf Takacs
Producer: Rudolf Takacs
Director: Kurdwin Ayub
Script-concept: Kurdwin Ayub
DOP: Kurdwin Ayub
Editor: Nooran Talebi
Sound engineer: Kurdwin Ayub
Production manager: Lixi Frank
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)