Waking Up in Silence
Im Stillen erwachen

Waking Up in Silence | Im Stillen erwachen by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
DEU, UKR 2023, Generation
© Tobias Blickle

Waking Up in Silence | Im Stillen erwachen by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
DEU, UKR 2023, Generation
© Tobias Blickle

Waking Up in Silence | Im Stillen erwachen by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
DEU, UKR 2023, Generation
© Tobias Blickle

Waking Up in Silence | Im Stillen erwachen by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
DEU, UKR 2023, Generation
Crew
Directors | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi |
Screenplay | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi |
Cinematography | Tobias Blickle |
Editing | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi |
Music | Anton Baibakov, Dewey Martino |
Sound Design | Daniel Asadi Faezi, Andrew Mottl |
Sound | Kristina Kilian |
Dramaturgy | Kristina Kilian |
Producers | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi |
Co-Producer | Andrii Kotliar |
Co-Production | Babylon’13 Kyiv |
World Sales
Square Eyes
Produced by
Daniel Asadi und Lotas Film

Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
The two directors receiving their award.
Waking Up in Silence | Im Stillen erwachen · Generation · Special Prize of the Generation Kplus International Jury for the Best Short Film · Feb 25, 2023
Mila Zhluktenko

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, the filmmaker studied documentary at the Munich University of Television and Film (HFF). Her films have screened at several international festivals including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the San Sebastián Film Festival, the MoMA Doc Fortnight and Visions du Réel in Nyon. Opera Glasses won the Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig. Rücblickend betrachtet is the third work she has co-directed with Daniel Asadi Faezi.
Filmography (short films)
2017 I Love My #Hairlegs · Find Fix Finish; documentary, co-director: Sylvain Cruiziat 2019 Opera Glasses; documentary 2022 Aralkum; co-director: Daniel Asadi Faezi 2023 Waking Up in Silence; documentary, co-director: Daniel Asadi Faezi 2025 Rückblickend betrachtet (In Retrospect); documentary, co-director: Daniel Asadi Faezi
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025
Daniel Asadi Faezi

The director and producer studied documentary filmmaking at HFF Munich and at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. He is a Berlinale Talents alumnus and his films have screened at numerous festivals including Locarno, DOK Leipzig and Ann Arbor in Michigan, USA. With Mila Zhluktenko, he has already co-directed Aralkum, which won Best Short Film at Visions du Réel, and Waking Up in Silence, which won the Special Prize of the International Jury for Best Short Film in the Generation Kplus section of the Berlinale.
Filmography
2017 In Search Of; short film 2018 The Absence of Apricots; documentary 2019 Where We Used to Swim; short documentary 2021 Langsam vergesse ich Eure Gesichter (Slowly Forgetting Your Faces); documentary 2022 Aralkum; short documentary, co-director: Mila Zhluktenko 2023 Waking Up in Silence; short documentary, co-director: Mila Zhluktenko 2025 Rückblickend betrachtet (In Retrospect); short documentary, co-director: Mila Zhluktenko
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025