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Yallah Habibi

2021 · 27 min

A small, warm slice of a young woman's double life, balancing family friction and nightlife with wry humour and quiet weariness.

Overview
During the day, 18-year-old Elaha argues with her mother about cleaning up, at night she works at the club to move in with her friend Ina. She also uses her quick wit to answer endless questions about her origins.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • family
  • friendship
  • immigration
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Mahnas Sarwari
Written by
Anja Scharf, Mahnas Sarwari
Starring
Banafshe Hourmazdi, Maditha Dolle, Mohammad-Ali Behboudi, Enrique Fiß, Malika Kilgus, Jonas Stenzel, Butz Ulrich Buse, Irina Kurbanova
Cinematography
Felix Pflieger
Runtime
27 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German, Persian

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