NOTHINGWOOD

by Sonia Kronlund

PRODUCTION : 2017 – 90′ – In coproduction with Made in Germany

DISTRIBUTION : Pyramide

INTERNATIONAL SALES : Pyramide International

FESTIVALS

Cannes Film Festival 2017 ‒ « Directorʼs Fortnight »

Locarno Festival 2017

Biografilm Festival 2017 : « LifeTale Award for Qurban Ali »

Fiumicino Film Festival : « Best Documentary »

La Croix du Documentaire Festival : « Coup de cœur du public »

SYNOPSIS

At around 100 km from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most prolific and popular actor-director-producer in Afghanistan, came to show several of his 110 features films and, in passing, shoot the next one. This trip, in which he brought his actors, all more eccentric and out of control than the last, is the opportunity to meet this film lover, who has made relentlessly Z-movies in a country at war for more than thirty years. Nothingwood tells the story of a life spent to accomplish a child’s dream.