Movies – Page 2 – Exile Film Festival 2023

Leila - 2023

— 25 min min - Documentary

Number: 33
Show: Sunday 12 November, 13:30, Hagabion Sal 1 | Tuesday 14 November, 18:30, Hagabion Sal 2

Director: Fariba Haidari

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A portrait of an unforgettable transgender teacher in Herat, Afghanistan, that shines even with the prospect of the Taliban returning.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Documentary

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Country: Documentary

Language: Dari, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: Ginestra Film AB

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 25 min

Earthquake - 2022

— 5 min min - Animation

Number: 32
Show: Sunday 12 November, 13:30, Hagabion Sal 1 | Tuesday 14 November, 13:00, Angereds Bio

Director: Mohsen Hossaini

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Storyline

My mother died the day I was born. My father was always in the war. I was eleven when my father forced me to marry an old man.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Animation

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Country: Norway

Language: English, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 05 min

Salvation Rain - 2018

— 12 min min - Fiction

Number: 31
Show: Monday 13 November, 18:30, Angereds Bio

Director: Veysel Celik

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War is everywhere: east, west, north, south. The war is always valued over the people who die. But the struggle of the people who survived will continue. Thousands of people are losing their lives and leaving behind their relatives. Burying the dead and grieving in response to a loss is holy to societies. This grieving period is a recovery period. Normal grieving allows one to let a loved one go and keep on living healthily. Grieving is painful, and it's important that those who have suffered a loss be allowed to express their grief. But it can be a never-ending melancholy and a social pathology if they cannot express it. This pathology gradually increases in communities exposed to mass trauma, and the generations are entering a never-ending grief period. Janya is a symbol of societies that have not completed the grief ritual. In the "Salvation Rain" project, I first wanted to complete a personal and communal grief period. In his childhood, Janya was the only one who survived by escaping from a night massacre. After 20 years, he returns, and the repressed grief overwhelms him. To cope with the past, Janya creates his own reality in a parallel time

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Kurdistan

Language: Kurdish, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 12 min

The Scent Of Dialogue

The Scent Of Dialogue - 2021

— 30 min min - Fiction

Number: 30
Show: Saturday 11 November, 19:00, Hagabion Sal 1 | Wednesday 15 November, 18:30, Hagabion Sal 2

Director: Fariba Haidari

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An Afghan woman, ZAHRA, 26, has lived with her husband in Sweden for four years. She separated to follow her dreams and find a new life in a new society. Living alone feels great initially, but she is exposed to some problems she is unprepared for. She studies and, at the same time, works as a home help. Now, six months after the separation, she finally dares to tell her mother about the separation. The mother, who recently had heart surgery, gets angry and stops contacting her. Zahra fights to find a way to keep her freedom and her mother's contact. The film shows similarities and differences between two women from different cultures and generations.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Sweden

Language: Persian, Swedish, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

A Poet Is Killed

A Poet Is Killed - 2020

— 70 min min - Documentary

Number: 29
Show: Monday 13 November, 18.30, Världslitteraturhuset

Director: Arsalan Baraheni

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A poet is killed deals with the life of Mohammad Mokhtari. He was a very well-known Iranian poet who was killed in the chain murders of Iran in the mid-1990s. His body was found in the street in Tehran with a pen in his pocket after he was strangled to death.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Documentary

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Country: Canada, Iran

Language: Persian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: Baraheni Film Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

Checkpoint

Checkpoint - 1987

— 91 min min - Fiction

Number: 28
Show: Saturday 11 November, 13:00, Hagabion Sal 1 | Wednesday 15 November, 18:30, Hagabion Sal 2

Director: Parviz Sayyad

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A busload of College students returning to Michigan from a Canadian field trip is stopped at the US border during the Iranian hostage crisis. The group includes a number of Iranian passengers, divided along ideological lines, whose debates about policy and politics soon lead to a full-scale confrontation.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: USA

Language: Persian, English, Subtitles: English

Company Credits

Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

Women, The Forgotten Faces of War

Women, The Forgotten Faces of War - 2002

— 84 min min - Documentary

Number: 26
Show: Monday 13 November, 19:00, Viktoriasalen

Director: Susan Mujka, Greta Olafsdottir

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Filmed in Albania and Kosova over two years, this film takes us where the evening news won't go. Ordinary women relate what it's like to live with the scars of gang rape, the execution of their loved ones, and the terror they lived through during the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. These are real stories of real women and their amazing journeys as they rebuild their lives and begin a healing process in a world turned upside down by war.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Documentary

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Country: USA

Language: English, Albanian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: Bless Bless Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

The Chest

The Chest - 2004

— 50 min min - Documentary

Number: 25
Show: Sunday 12 November, 19:30, Viktoriasalen

Director: Ahu Özturk

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Storyline

"Gulistan" is detained by the policemen of the Mardin Security Department in Turkey and raped several times. She can no longer keep silent against this situation, lasting for years. She wants to clean herself and bring her bad memories into the sunlight she kept in her chest during her childhood, youth, and maturity. This documentary is to deliver the things that got out of this chest.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Documentary

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Country: Turkey

Language: Turkish, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: Mesepotamia Cinema Collective, Culture Center

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 50 min

As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night

As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night - 2022

— 21 min min - Fiction

Number: 24
Show: Saturday 11 November, 16:00, Hagabion Sal 1 | Tuesday 14 November, 18:30, Folkets Hus Hammarkullen

Director: Søren Lind, Larissa Sansour

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An Arabic-language opera about mourning and inherited trauma. Performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish, it fuses Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Masha’al, a traditional Palestinian song. Steeped in black and white, Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish delivers an Arabic-language aria about intergenerational sorrow and maternal grief. The haunting composition, based on Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and the Palestinian traditional song Mashaal, traces a century of loss and harrowing conflict with extraordinary power and grace. – Leonie Woodfin

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Denmark, United Kingdom

Language: Arabic, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies: Ali Roche / Ali Roche Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 21 min

In Vitro

In Vitro - 2019

— 28 min min - Fiction

Number: 23
Show: Monday 13 November, 21:00, Hagabion Sal 1

Director: Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind

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Decades after an eco-disaster engulfs the biblical city of Bethlehem, two scientists from different generations discuss memory, exile, and nostalgia in this symbolic speculative fiction.

Collections: EFF-23

Genres: Fiction

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Country: Denmark, United Kingdom, Occupied Palestinian territory

Language: Arabic, English text

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Production Companies: —

Technical Specs

Runtime: 0 h 28 min