For its 36th edition, FIDMarseille remains true to its mission: to spotlight independent cinema that is attentive to the echoes of the contemporary world and to the stories that reveal its fractures, both intimate and collective.

Conference of the Birds, Conference of the Birds

Amin Motallebzadeh

Germany, 2025, Color, 79’

World Premiere

Following the death of the coach of a professional football club, events come to a head and the world seems to fall apart around the team. Latent sadness, orderly crisis, slow-motion fall.

Technical sheet

  • Script:
    Amin Motallebzadeh
  • Photography:
    Tom Otte
  • Editing:
    Maja Tennstedt
  • Music:
    Nima Khaste
  • Sound:
    Jakob Spengemann, Jakob Defant
  • Cast:
    Hicham El Madkouri, Wigger Bierma, Dieter Bernkopf, Souleymane Sylla, Steven Sowah, Willy Hans, Marten Quirin Korte, Enes Yurdaün, Lucca Pawlik, Bülent Özdemir, Alexander Simon, Catherine Seifert
  • Production:
    Andrea Schütte (Tamtam Film ), Dirk Decker (Tamtam Film), Amin Motallebzadeh
  • Contact:
    Thomas Ordonneau (Shellac Films)