Yunan

Yunan is a 2025 drama written and directed by the Syrian filmmaker Ameer Fakher Eldin. A co-production between Germany, Canada and Italy, it is spoken in German and Arabic and runs about 124 minutes. It is the second film of the planned "Homeland" trilogy that began with Fakher Eldin's award-winning 2021 film Al Garib (The Stranger); the third part is already in development.

The film was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 19 February 2025. It reached audiences on all platforms on 12 June 2025.

The story follows an exiled Arab author who travels to a remote island on Germany's North Sea coast intending to end his life. There he meets the compassion of the elderly woman who runs the island's hotel, which gives him unexpected hope and revives his will to live. Hanna Schygulla, Sibel Kekilli and Ali Süleyman star, and the cast also includes Georges Khabbaz, Tom Wlaschiha and Laura Sophia Landauer.