The Absence of Apricots

A remote village in the mountains of Northern-Pakistan. Surrounded by a huge turquoise lake in between rough, steep cliffs. One day, a landslide blocked a river. In a few months, this river turned into a huge lake, which is up to 30km long. Thousands of homes and fields were flooded. Entire villages disappeared. People got dislocated. What is left are the people and their stories which are passed on from generation to generation.

Daniel Asadi Faezi

Daniel Asadi Faezi was born in 1993 in Germany. His mother is German, his father from
Iran. When he was 18 he spent one year in Kolkata doing social work against child
labour for an NGO. After that, he lived in Tehran to attend a language school. Since 2013
he is studying in the Documentary Department at University for Television and Film
Munich and at National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan. Since the age of 17, he
directed 11 short films which were screened at over 100 film festivals, including Locarno,
Nyon, Tampere, and Mumbai. He lived and worked in Munich, Kolkata, Tehran, and Lahore and speaks German, English, Farsi, and Urdu/Hindi.