LIAS Film Series: "Profession: Documentarist"
Wednesday, 10. April, 7:00 pm
10. Apr
In the LIAS film series in cooperation with the SCALA arthouse cinema, international films on cultural and socially critical topics are accompanied by introductions and discussions every month.
"Profession: Documentarist" is a vivid example of the feminisation of Iranian civil society in recent decades. Seven independent Iranian female documentary filmmakers take us into their personal and professional worlds, in an Iran that continues to be plagued by political, social and economic crises. In seven autobiographical chapters, it becomes clear that the decision to become a documentary filmmaker in Iran is a courageous one that often jeopardises one's own freedom. These women are driven by the need to document their world and the forces that constantly restrict their freedom of movement. Whether they are making a film about department stores in Tehran that feature mannequins with severed heads and breasts, or about the singers they loved as children who have been banned from radio and television since the revolution, or about the great wave of hope that comes with every election, these women directors offer a rare and incisive insight into Iran today, a country they continue to love, even as they want it to change.
Iran, 2014 - Directors: Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei
80 min. - Original with English subtitles
Introduction and discussion: Mina Keshavarz and Katja Rieck.
Free admission.
SCALA Arthouse Cinema, Apothekenstr. 17, 21335 Lüneburg
