Darkland (Underverden)
Part of the European Perspectives Strand
Fenar Ahmad
18
109 mins
2017
Denmark
Danish
Dar Salim, Stine Fischer Christensen, Ali Sivandi, Dulfi Al-Jabouri
Director of Photography: Kasper Tuxen
Editor: Kasper Leick
Produced by: Jacob Jarek
Music: Jens Ole Wowk McCoy
Screenplay by: Fenar Ahmad, Adam August
Production Designer: Sabine Hviid
Sound Production: Peter Albrechsten
Director Bio
Fenar Ahmad
Director Bio
Fenar Ahmad was born in Czechoslovakia and came to Denmark as an Iraqi refugee. In 2004 he began making documentaries, and in 2007 he joined the film collective Super16. Ahmad’s film Mesopotamia (2008) won the First Prize Official Short Competition at the Gulf Film Festival. His feature film debut Flow (2014) premiered at CPH PIX 2014 and topped the box office of Danish when it was released.
Zaid has escaped the chains of his troubled upbringing to achieve financial stability, career success, and build a home with his wife in Copenhagen. When a local drugs gang kills his brother, Zaid risks his new privileged lifestyle to seek revenge. Surgeon by day, Zaid dons a mask by night, jumps on his motorbike, and hunts down the criminals who have done him wrong, returning to the struggling neighbourhood he escaped from years ago. Director Fenar Ahmad’s sophomore feature is a gritty, visual, high-concept thriller, making him a director to watch.
Contains flashing images.