COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – Kurdish-Danish filmmaker Ferhat Gurini has carved out a film that demands action. Commissioned by charitable streetwear label Generation Gaza, The Lost Generation abandons the merch rack to put raw human resilience front and center. Produced by Bacon, the short film which is equal parts dream sequence and documentary fragment tracks a solitary wanderer across a vast dust-red expanse. He walks, mourns and remembers; the silence is thunderous.
“The film tries to capture a form of resilience that does not stem from hope but from the absence of an alternative. It is not heroic. It is not optimistic. It is silent, stubborn and painful,” says Ferhat Gurini.
Made from a mix of new and archival footage, the film is inspired by the harrowing viral interview with the brother of Shaaban al-Dalou who burned alive in his tent during an airstrike in 2024. It is a devastating and poetic cry for peace by a new director with a remarkable background.
Having earned a First Class Honours BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, Ferhat Gurini spent years working in international think tanks, as a Middle East editor for a magazine and in an NGO. However, in 2023 he found himself at a crossroads.
“I grew more and more disparaged by the lack of effect of the work I was doing, and I spoke with a colleague who said: If you really want to make a difference, you need to influence people through culture like music or filmmaking,” he says.
After working primarily as a one-man-band, often shooting and editing his own films, The Lost Generation is Ferhat Gurini’s first film in an established setup.
CREDITS
Director: Ferhat Gurini
Production Company: Bacon
DoP: Tobi Aman Manczak
Producer: Alicia Moon
Executive Producer: Samuel Cantor
Editors: Thomas Irving, Frederik Marbell
VFX: Viktor Gelbek, Emanuel Kambo / Bacon XO
Colorgrade: Hannibal Lang / BaconX
Sound Design: Mads Bergland
Music: Coolpacc
Production Design: Travis W. Sproul
1st AC: Anders Bévort
Gaffer: Andreas Moeslund, David Sizemore
Camera Assistant: Hussein Ali Kazem
Production Assistants: Sienna Bruun, Anja Giele
Best Boy: Mathias Hornum
PD Assistant: Sara De Gang
Graphics & Research: Jacky Su, Isabella Zibert
Communications: Lasse Cato
Special thanks to:
Storyline Rental, The Lab, Claudia’s
