| Writer & Director | Leis Bagdach |
| Producer | Holm Taddiken (Neufilm) Arek Gielnik (Indi Film) |
| Trailer | –> HERE <– |
Status: Completed
Berlin pop star Yak (38), who is plagued by a crisis of meaning at the height of his career, receives an unexpected message: his almost forgotten father, who returned to his home country of Syria in a mad rush over 30 years ago, is lying in a coma in a German hospital - and has brought Yak a surprise: a 15-year-old half-sister called Latifa (15), who only speaks Arabic. Unwillingly reunited, the siblings embark on an odyssey across Germany. The journey becomes a search for one’s own roots, the meaning of (folk) music; and the answer to the question of all questions: what does HEIMAT* really mean?
*HEIMAT is an untranslatable German word that roughly means HOME
| Yak/FTHR | Kostja Ullmann |
| Latifa | Safinaz Sattar |
| Father | Husam Chadat |
| Mother | Petra Schmidt-Schaller |
| Grandmother | Ursula Werner |
| Art | Tom Lass |
| Fee | Verena Altenberger |
| King | Thomas Arnold |
| Christian | Nico Seyfrid (K.I.Z.) |
| Commissioning Editor | Stefanie Groß (SWR), Daniela Muck (arte) |
| Cinematography | Andreas Bergmann |
| Editing | Claudia Wolscht |
| Casting | Ulrike Müller |
| Sound Design | Andreas Hildebrand |
| Scenography | Stephanie Strecker |
| Costume | Tini Fetscher |
| Make-up | Monika Knauf, Marina Arent |
| Lighting | Gilmar Steinig |