At the beginning of the 1950-ies, American writer James Baldwin spent several weeks in Leukerbad village. Being surrounded by white Swiss mountains and white people, he never felt as black as in these days as he stated in his writing. While interacting with the mostly friendly village people, he was confronted with naïve racism. This setting brought him to write his groundbreaking 1953 essay “Stranger in a Village”. Inspired by the essay, the film tells a semi-fictional story about racism in a mountain village, as well as in the whole world.

Fiction feature film project in development, planned length 90′, written by Samir and Joël Jent, to be directed by Samir, produced by Karin Koch for Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion

Labs / Festivals

75th Locarno Film Festival – Alliance for Development program 2021 / MIA Int. Audiovisual Market Roma – Film Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum 2022