PARADISE TRAVEL

El Badre is a family-run funeral home, specialized in repatriation. Its all-Muslim clients have to deal with the question of repatriating loved-ones to their homeland. The final departure of a recently- deceased relative, often stirs up the past and reveals different family ties.

Katharina Wartena. Katharina Wartena (Amsterdam,1972), grew up in France, and went back to Amsterdam in 1992 to study editing at the Dutch Film and TV Academy. There she met with the film director Nanouk Leopold, and edited all her films since then. Besides she edited diverse feature films and many documentary’s for Dutch and French tv, and for the festival circuit. She moved back to Paris in 2000 where she got a Masters in Anthropology at the university and continued working as an editor. In 2016 she directed her first documentary, Keeping a Distance, which was selected in the competition section of the Cinema du Réel in Paris.