{"id":334160,"date":"2010-02-18T06:08:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11997"},"modified":"2010-02-18T06:08:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:08:50","slug":"german-film-explores-muslims-struggling-with-life-in-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334160","title":{"rendered":"German film explores Muslims struggling with life in West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11998\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 361px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998\" title=\"qurbani\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/02\/qurbani-351x211-custom.jpg\" alt=\"qurbani\" width=\"351\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burhan Qurbani at the Berlinale International Film Festival, 17 Feb 2010\/Tobias Schwarz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>German-Afghan director Burhan Qurbani shines the spotlight on the difficulties facing young Muslims in the western world in his first feature film &#8220;Shahada&#8221;, set in multicultural Berlin. The film, which won applause at its screening at the Berlin film festival on Wednesday, is about the intertwining tales of three young German-born Muslims struggling to reconcile their family faith and traditions with a modern, Western lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My motivation was to get the audience to look at the film and connect with this religion that is all around them,&#8221;<\/em> said Qurbani, born in Germany of Afghan parents. <em>&#8220;I hope the film will get the public to talk, to debate.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shahada&#8221; is part of a recent wave of critically acclaimed German movies challenging cultural stereotypes and exploring the difficulties facing the so-called second generation of immigrant communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/entertainmentNews\/idINIndia-46245420100217?sp=true\">Read the whole story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span id=\"apture_prvw1\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burhan Qurbani at the Berlinale International Film Festival, 17 Feb 2010\/Tobias Schwarz German-Afghan director Burhan Qurbani shines the spotlight on the difficulties facing young Muslims in the western world in his first feature film &#8220;Shahada&#8221;, set in multicultural Berlin. The film, which won applause at its screening at the Berlin film festival on Wednesday, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}