Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

Nacht vor Augen is a gripping film about a soldier who returns from Iraq with PTSD.
After the screening, Vooruit’s Critical Forum will hold a debate on the Belgian military presence in Southern Afghanistan.

About the movie:
Twenty-five-year-old David returns to his home village in the Black Forest from a Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan. His girlfriend Kirsten and his mother are overjoyed to see him safe and well and his shy eight-year-old brother is full of admiration for him. But David is close-mouthed, brusque, and not the same man he was before the mission. Shortly after his return, the Bundeswehr informally honours him for supposed heroism. He is said to have shot an Afghan assassin in self-defence, thereby saving the lives of his whole unit. David returns to his old job as a paramedic and goes living with Kirsten. But slowly his family and his girlfriend are forced to recognize that he is plagued by an inner turmoil; he can’t get the war he has left behind out of his head. Very soon his behaviour becomes so erratic that he is a danger to himself and his family …

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