Discovered at the Munich Film Festival: Emotional political thriller with stars Barbara Sukowa and Lambert Wilson. Conservative politician Mathilda actually stands for strictly guarded external EU borders. Things become all the more difficult for her when she is asked to help her old friend Richard hide Malik, who has entered the country illegally from Morocco. Mathilda's second-generation assistant Amina also questions her own position when Malik becomes the target of a terrorist investigation following a bomb attack.
The artist Richard (Lambert Wilson) can no longer afford his British homeland and lives in Tangier. With his help, the young Moroccan Malik (Habib Adda) makes it to Europe, the place he longs for. There, the conservative politician Mathilda (Barbara Sukowa) of all people is supposed to hide him. Mathilda's assistant, the lawyer Amina (Banafshe Hourmazdi), who finally wants to leave her Moroccan roots behind her, is called in as a 'cultural mediator' to solve the problem. But Malik has his own plans. Left to his own devices, he unwittingly sets off an avalanche...
'Klandestin' (2024) is a thriller about personal feelings in political dimensions. This film gradually reveals the finely interwoven lives of its characters. More and more secrets are uncovered until everything fits together like a puzzle to form a multi-layered overall picture. Written and directed by Angelina Maccarone ('Persecuted', 'The Look - Charlotte Rampling'), with a top-class cast including Barbara Sukowa ('Hannah Arendt', 'Dalíland') as Mathilda, Lambert Wilson('Matrix Resurrections', 'La Boum 2') in the role of the artist Richard, newcomer Habib Adda as Malik and Banafshe Hourmazdi ('Loving Her', 'Futur Drei') as Mathilda's assistant Amina.