Darkland: The Return

Fenar Ahmad

Zaid has been in jail for seven years. He agrees to go undercover for the police in exchange of being released and seeing his estranged 7-year-old son. Zaid desperately tries to combine his life as an undercover source in a violent gang while building a relationship with his son.

Crew

Director

Fenar Ahmad
Production

Jacob Jarek & Marta Mlkeczek
Script

Fenar Ahmad & Behrouz Bigdeli
Cinematography

Peter Riis
Editing

Kasper Leick
Music

Jens Ole Wowk McCoy

Cast

Dar Salim
Stine Fischer Christensen
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
Henrik Vestergaard
Mohamed Djeziri

Information

Origin

Danemark
Year

2023
Duration

1h50
Languages

Danish & Arabic with French subtitles

Distribution

Kinovista

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Fenar Ahmad

Born in 1981 in Czechoslovakia to immigrant Iraqi parents, his family emigrated to Denmark where he studied film in the Super16 alternative film school. In 2010, his short film Megaheavy won Best Short Fiction at the Robert Film Awards (the Danish Oscars). Four years later, he directed Flow, his feature debut, starring Danish rapper Kian Rosenberg Larsson, better known as Gilli. In 2017, he made the action thriller Darkland, prequel to Darkland: The Return, which was a big hit in Denmark.