27 November - 3 December 2009 
 

GERMAN DOX
 Friday 27 November 16:00 

Alias
 ALIAS 

“He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone” – a church minister of the New Apostolic Church quotes from the Bible to lay a young married couple’s conflict to rest. Afterwards, nothing more is said about the woman’s adultery. And so a young boy grows up in a deceptive idyll together with his family and his brothers and sisters in faith, firmly anchored in the ideologies of a petit-bourgeois, religious environment. He never really registers the fact that his appearance is unusual for a German. In his early twenties, he argues fiercely with his father, who reveals the supposed truth of his son’s origins in a rage. The family emerges as a structure of hypocrisy, its members as silent guardians of shared knowledge – not only that of his identity. Only years later he finds the courage to return to his childhood town, to speak with members of his family, and to subsequently travel to Lebanon where he finally encounters a familiar stranger.


Before enrolling at the Academy of Television and Film (HFF)/Munich, Jens Junker worked as an editor, electrician, assistant director and producer in Cologne. In 2007, he co-founded King Khalil, a collective for arts and ads. His films include Zirkus ohne Manege (documentary short, 1999), Der Muetze-Fluch (documentary, 2000), Sterben macht durstig (short, 2001), Rosi (short portrait, 2002), Der Tierfreund (short, 2003), Juice (short, 2004), Neun (episode film, 2005), and Alias (documentary, 2009).



  
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We are delighted that director
Jens Junker and producers
Tobias Walker & Philipp Worm
will be present at the screening.


Director
Jens Junker
Screenplay
Jenks Junker, Simone Schirmer
Director of Photography
Philip Haucke
Editors
André Bendocchi-Alves,
Claudia Enzmann,
Renate Salazr Ivancan
Music by
Dave King
Producers
Tobias Walker, Philipp Worm
Co-Producer Jens Junker
Production Company
Walker+Worm Film/Munich, in
co-production with Academy of Television and Film (HFF)/Munich,
40° Filmproduktion/Munich+Berlin, Twinpix Filmproduktion/Munich,
King Khalil/Munich

Length/Format
90 min, colour
Festival Screenings
Montreal 2009, Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken 2009
Awards
Max Ophuels prize 2009 for
Best Documentary
Original Version
German/English/Arabic
Subtitled Version
English
With backing from
German Federal Film Board (FFA)
World Sales
Walker+Worm Film GmbH & Co KG