Taste of Arrival - EPK
Documentary Series
Synopsis
What does it mean to truly arrive when home is left behind?
Taste of Arrival invites us into the lives of six refugees in Switzerland, where memory and hope intertwine in the act of rebuilding.
A poetic portrait of identity, resilience, and the quiet search for belonging.
Languages: Arabic, Kurdish, Farsi, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, Krio (with Arabic, English subtitles)
Format: 6 x 15-20 minute episodes
Status: In development
Director’s Statement
Born from a deeply felt need to understand what it truly means to “arrive,” this series explores not only the act of reaching a new place, but the fragile and ongoing process of finding belonging, identity, and hope in a land far from home. Rooted in my own experience of war, migration, and becoming a refugee at 33, Taste of Arrival reflects a deeply personal journey. The first three episodes were created as pilot episodes, and I am now developing the first season, which will expand into six new episodes.
Taste of Arrival has received development funding from Zürcher Filmstiftungin November 2025, and the project is now using this support to further develop the series and move into the production stage.
Gallery
A Refugee talking | A refugee absorbed in talking | Did not feel the cigarette burn his fingers | Surprised to be here | After being there – stations, harbours, | Visitations, forged papers | Depending on a chain of details | His future was fibre-like | Laid out in small circles | An oppressive country | Afflicted by nightmares | Smugglers, emigration bandits, if you asked me | Commonplace people maybe, hungry sea-gulls | Over a wrecked ship in the middle of nowhere | If you asked me, I would say: | Endless waiting in immigration bureaus | Faces that do not return smiles whatever you do | Who said: the most precious gift | If you asked me, I would say: Human beings are everywhere. | I would say: Everywhere | Stones | He talks, talks, talks | He had arrived but did not enjoy the taste of arrival | And did not feel the cigarette burn his fingers.
Sargon Boulus
Key Team
Sana Al Mor
Director & Writer
Lebanese visual storyteller and filmmaker based in Zurich, Switzerland. Graduate of F+F School of Art and Media Design Zurich. Sana holds a BA in Arabic Literature and a diploma in professional photography from the New York Institute of Photography.
Sophia Rubischung
Producer
Swiss-Austrian producer based in Zurich. Master of Arts in History and English Literature from the University of Zurich. Producer of EATING THE SILENCE and participant in TFL Extended Series and Doha Film Institute Producer's Lab.
Stéphane Kuthy
Director of Photography
Born in Paris, raised in Switzerland. Studied cinema at ECAL. Cinematographer of over fifteen feature films and twenty feature documentaries, with international awards and nominations.
Lukas Zingg
Production Sound Mixer
Swiss location sound mixer, cinematographer, and re-recording mixer based in Zurich. Degrees in photography and film from f+f School of Art and Design. Background in history from the University of Zurich.
Production Company
Zurich-based production company founded in 2002, specializing in authorial films with a focus on social and political life.
Sana Al Mor
sana.almor@protonmail.com
+41 76 494 01 81