Rückblickend betrachtet

In Retrospect

Berlinale Shorts 2025

1970. An entire small town is being built for the Summer Olympics in Munich. It includes a subway station, a stadium, a swimming pool, a residential area and the largest shopping mall in Europe at the time – the Olympia shopping mall. Many migrant workers, so-called “guest workers”, are employed on the construction site.
2016. Nine people are murdered in a right-wing terrorist attack at the Olympia shopping mall in Munich. All the victims have a migrant background. 1982. Sohrab Shahid Saless, an Iranian director, shoots a film in West Germany as a response to the rapid increase in racism. The characters in the film walk past houses, walls and facades smeared with far-right slogans. The colours flicker shrilly and fade again. Rückblickend betrachtet is an attempt to look back and search for connections that link a space and its history.

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by Daniel Asadi Faezi (Director, Screenplay), Mila Zhluktenko (Director, Screenplay) Germany 2025 German 14' Colour & Black/White World premiere | Documentary form

Crew

Directors	Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Screenplay	Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Cinematography	Tobias Blickle
Editing	Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Music	Hora Lunga
Sound Design	Andrew Mottl
Producers	Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko

Produced by

Daniel Asadi Faezi

Mila Zhluktenko

World Sales

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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

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