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2020 Oscar® Selection, Kosovo.

From producer Maren Ade (TONI ERDMANN) comes a thriller about paranoia and identity that's simultaneously dark and surreal, with echoes of genre cinema and an unconventional sense of humor. Xhafer (Mišel Matičević, IN THE FACE OF CRIME), a 45-year-old, Kosovo-born pharmaceutical engineer living in Germany, is starting to feel a creeping sense of discrimination and bullying at work because of his ethnic background. When he finds a dead rat hanging from the gate in front of his home, it becomes clear to him that his racist colleagues have gone too far. Every occurrence, every word, every gesture is taken as evidence. Every day, Xhafer's uneasiness grows. His German wife Nora (Sandra Hüller, TONI ERDMANN) is tired of him playing the racism card. She can't help but wonder: do his colleagues simply dislike him? Are the instances of targeted cruelty and humiliation all in his head or are they really happening? The steadily growing threats and microaggressions that go beyond office politics could cost Xhafer everything as he walks a delicate tightrope between his life as an integrated, middle-class family man and a foreigner in his adopted country. Official Selection, 2020 Sundance, Berlin, Sarajevo, Zurich and Warsaw film festivals.

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