Feast of Sacrifice

It’s a wonderfully warm summer evening, and Rashid and Sara want to celebrate Eid – the feast of sacrifice – in the garden of their terraced house in Vienna with their three grown-up children. But the mood is already dampened by the fact that their son Walid thinks his father is not a good Muslim because he did not slaughter the ram that is sacrificed to Allah on this occasion himself, but rather bought it. Conversely, Rashid is annoyed that Walid constantly quotes the Koran but does not make any further effort to find a new job. Fortunately, at least his second son Hasan is taken care of. But why has Hasan only brought his grandson Mohamad with him this time? Where is Hasan’s wife? And why has Hasan still not had Mohamad circumcised as he should? As if this were not enough material for conflict, today is the day that their daughter Ranya wants to introduce her new boyfriend Max to her parents, an Austrian! To top it all, their neighbour Jörg sticks his nose in. He sees parallels in his Nazi past to the family’s flight from war-stricken Syria. Old wounds are torn open, and the quarrels get physical.

«An evening in which opposites clash but are not definitely resolved because you have to live with them. And you can.» (Kölnische Rundschau)

«Comedy arises from startling moments of realisation time and again … Ibrahim Amir reflects poetically on the emotional contradictions of a life in a new homeland, between the preservation of tradition, life dreams and an inner compulsion to succeed.» (Nachtkritik)