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What we want to do here with our cinegeek.de is to make the Corona crisis easier for you. After only a few days I realize now that it is also about loneliness, depression and a lot of quarrelling at home. Normally we are brought up not to watch so much TV. And also not to leave our children sitting in front of the monitur all day long. But what if we all get locked up together? Then we need movies we can break out with! Movies that make us feel good! Movies that allow us to just kill time.

A sea of sand, containing two lonely hikers. The girl Ishtar and her grandfather Bab'ziz. They are on their way to Dervish, a place that opens every 30 years to those who open their hearts to the desert. On the way they meet Osman, who is eager for the beautiful girl, Zaid, who seduces the women with his singing and finally the prince, who gives up his whole empire to save Derwisch. It is an ancient fairy tale told by Bab'Aziz Ishtar. One last kiss and Bab'Aziz lets Ishtar draw with Zaid in the whirlpool of colours. For him, Bab'Aziz, the time has come to merge with the sand of the desert. With his films, the Tunisian Nacer Khemir deliberately tries to draw a different, beautiful picture of the Arab world. He allows us to look into the mystical world that stretches from Persia to the Maghreb. The motif of a fundamental truth brings all religions together and goes beyond them: Sufism, which stands above Christianity, Islam or Judaism. Sufism forms the Lot of Bab'Aziz. It becomes visible as a dream landscape in the film, beyond reality, geographical or temporal borders. Baba'Aziz is an ode to the desert and to love. It is the world of the prince who leaves the visible world to immerse himself in the innermost part of his soul - to look at himself from within.