MUBI Presents: CENTRAL AIRPORT THF


CENTRAL AIRPORT THF
dir. Karim Aïnouz, 2018
Germany, 98 mins
In Arabic & German with English subtitles.

TUESDAY, MARCH 5 – 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 7 – 10 PM

MUBI’s latest Special Discovery is Karim Aïnouz’s award-winning CENTRAL AIRPORT THF, an intimate documentary that explores an iconic, now vacant Berlin airport currently being used to shelter refugees.

Berlin’s historic defunct Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures. Today its massive hangars are used as Germany’s largest emergency shelter for asylum seekers, like 18-year-old Syrian refugee Ibrahim. As Ibrahim adjusts to his transitory daily life of social services interviews, German lessons and medical exams, he tries to cope with homesickness and the anxiety of whether or not he will gain residency or be deported.
CENTRAL AIRPORT THF will be available to stream exclusively on MUBI starting February 8th. Watch here.
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