The special film "The Shadowhunters"
The city of Bocholt is showing the atmospherically dense thriller "The Shadowhunters" about a Syrian who pursues the torturers from his home country in Europe and hands them over to the justice system.
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Hamid has fled Syria and is seeking asylum in France. He has lost his wife and young daughter. He escaped from Assad's Saydnaya torture prison, but had to leave his mother behind in the refugee camp in Beirut.
He becomes a member of the secret Yaqaza cell, an underground network that tracks down fugitive war criminals of the Syrian regime and hands them over to the justice system.
At university, he believes he recognises his former torturer Harfaz in a fellow student, who is notorious as "The Chemist". However, as he can only identify him by his voice and smell, he is left with nothing but his intuition.
As he tries to uncover the truth, the boundaries between memory and present, justice and vigilante justice become blurred.
The film lasts 107 minutes. The film was directed by Jonathan Millet. Trailer and tickets are available at www.kinodrom.de
About the special film campaign
The film series "KINO Bocholt - the special film" has been running since 1977 as a cooperation between the Department of Education and Culture and the Bocholt Kinodrom. The aim is to present exceptional films - which would otherwise not be shown in Bocholt - to an interested audience of all ages at a favourable price of €7. Selected films are usually shown every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month.