Happy and proud that Sakir Khader’s first feature-length film, Through the Eye of the Falcon, has received funding from the Netherlands Film Fund and NPO fund and thrilled that the start of the production is getting near. It took a village to raise this film, so, thank you, Nordin Lasfar, Farah-Silvana Kanaan, Fatih Tura, Joost Seelen, mint film’s Jeffrey de Roode, Jelte Zonneveld, Rosa Duvekot, Flo Meijer, VPRO’s Marije Meerman, Mathiijs Jorritsma. And, naturellement, Sakir Khader, the man himself, a rather unique person. Thank you for never responding when I asked to meet you but coming by yourself when you were ready.