THE ABSENCE OF APRICOTS

2018 | Pakistan, Germany | 49 minutes | documentary | Burushaski with English subtitles
music: Ferdinand Kavall & Andy Ozbolt

A remote village in the mountains of Northern-Pakistan. Surrounded by a huge turquoise lake in between rough, steep cliffs.
One day, a landslide blocked a river. In a few months, this river turned into a huge lake, which is up to 30km long. Thousands of homes and fields were flooded. Entire villages disappeared. People got dislocated. What is left are the people and their stories which are passed on from generation to generation.


written, directed & produced | Daniel Asadi Faezi
music | Ferdinand Kavall & Andy Ozbolt
edit | Mila Zhluktenko
assistant director | Ali Atif
cinematography | Lilli Pongratz
sound | Mila Zhluktenko& Ali Atif
sounddesign | Andrew Mottl
re-recording mixer | Florian Schneeweiß
a Daniel Asadi Faezi Production in cooperation with HFF Munich and NCA Lahore

AWARDS
“Best Medium-Length Film” at Riga International Short Film Festival, 2018
“Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize” at RAI Film Festival, 2019

FESTIVALS
Visions du Réel International Competition, Switzerland, 2018
Mountainfilm Festival Kathmandu, Nepal, 2018
Escales Documentaires La Rochelle, France, 2018
Festival International du Film de Montagne d’Autrans, France, 2018
Riga International Short Film Festival 2Annas, Latvia, 2018
Mountainfilm Fest Graz, Austria, 2018
Poitiers Festival, France, 2018
Nonfiktionale Bad Aibling, Germany, 2019
Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, Brasil, 2019
EMAF Osnabrück, Germany, 2019
Trento Film Festival, Italy, 2019
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, UK, 2019
Tartu World Film Festival, Estonia, 2019
Festival della Lessinia, Italy, 2019
International Festival of Ethnological Film Belgrade, Serbia, 2019
Alexandre Trauner ART Festival, Hungary, 2019
Field Recordings 3, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2021