Atash (Thirst)

A family lives in the middle of Nowhere, not far from the village. Father and son sell the charcoal the family produces to the village, mother and daughters never leave the place. Their secret welds the family together and destroys it at the same time. The spectator becomes part of the complex relation of the family, mixing love and hatred, loneliness and confederacy of the group.

While Abu Shukri is building a water pipe and spends his time to protect it from a mysterious danger, his family is generating thirst for water, for food, for freedom, for sex, for eroticism, for love, for desire… Thirst for life.

Background-Info: Gamila, a young woman ruined her family. According to the rural male culture she is living in, the family’s honour is dependant on the daughter’s behaviour: she must obey the code of that culture. Abu Shukri, her father - torn between his moral cultural duty, to kill his daughter, and his love for her - invents a third possibility: he removes his whole family to nowhere.

Tawfik Abu Wael, Palestine/Israel 2004, Cinescope, 113 min, Color

screenings in Germany 

• 13.11.2008 Kino am Kocher Aalen  
• 30.10.-5.11.2008 Kommunales Kino Kiel
• 3.6.2008 naTo Leipzig
• 31.1.-6.2.08 Eiszeit Kino Berlin
• 2.+5.6.07 Mediterranean Filmdays Nuernberg
• 17.3.07 Werkstattkino Chur
• 13.-14.6.06 Subiaco Schramberg
• 6.6.-12.6.06 Subiaco Freudenstadt
• 30.5.-5.6.06 Subiaco Alpierbach
• 25.5.-29.5.06 Subiaco Schramberg
• 30.3.-7.4.06 Kino im mon ami Weimar
• 16.+17.3.06 Kino in der Reitschule Bern
• 15.3.06 VHS Ulm
• 18.-21.2.06 Kino achteinhalb Saarbruecken
• 24.+29.1.06 Mediterranean Film Festival Munich
• 15.12.05 House of World Cultures Berlin
• 24.-30.11.05 Colosseum Center Kempten
• 17.-23.11.05 Roxy Kino Dortmund
• 24.+26.10.05 Filmforum Duisburg
• 15.10.05 Brotfabrik Bonn
• 12.10.05 Caligari-Kino Ludwigsburg
• 7.-9.10.05 Blackbox Duesseldorf
• 6.-9.10.05 Kino 46 Bremen
• 15.-21.9.05 Kinemathek Karlsruhe
• 1.-7.9.05 Art-House Studio Recklinghausen
• 25.-31.8.05 Galerie Cinema Essen
• 24.-28.8.05 Filmfestival Freistadt/Austria (in competition)
• 29.7.-1.8.05 Filmkunst 66 Berlin
• 21.-26.7.05 Cinema Quadrat Mannheim
• 23.-29.6.05 Breitwand Kino Herrsching
• 23.-29.6.05 Cineding Leipzig
• 16.-22.6.05 naTo Leipzig 
• 10.-14.6.05 Wintergarten Regensburg
• 10.-19.6.05 Kino im Karlstorbahhof Heidelberg
• 26.5.-8.6.05 3001 Kino Hamburg
• 1.-8.6.05 Kino im Wehrbahnhof Freiburg
• 19.-24.5.05 Filmladen Kassel
• 14.-15.5.05 Filmmuseum Frankfurt
• 5.-26.5.05 Filmhaus Cologne
• 14.-27.4.05 Maxim Munich
• 14.4.-4.5.05 Eiszeit Berlin 
• 8.-12.4.05 Kino im Kuenstlerhaus Hannover
• 5.4.05 Schaubuehne im Lindenfels Leipzig 
• 3.-12.4.05 Cinema Muenster
• 6.-13.3.05 Filmfestival Augsburg
• 20.-29.1.05 Mediterranean Filmfestival Heidelberg (opening night film)
• 19.-31.1.05 Arab Filmfestival Tuebingen (opening night film)