EFF

Genres: Documentary

One Thousand Women

One Thousand Women - 2022

— 72 min min - Documentary

Director:  Mojgan Ilanlou
Stars:  —

Storyline

Iranian women who want to practice their favorite sport, wrestling, while living in a society shaped by religious patriarchy are confronted with quite particular challenges. Nevertheless, more than a thousand young women are internationally successful in this discipline because the World Sports Federation forces Iran to allow wrestling for women. The courageous female athletes, wearing Islamic sportswear as required by the state, struggle for their rights when some bad news causes an international crisis for Iranian wrestling, and they lose their most important supporters. This movie is a story of the thousands of young Iranian girls' dreams! It is a brilliant documentary that young people should especially see.

Collections: EFF-23
Genres: Documentary

Details

Country:  Iran
Language:  Persian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  —

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 12 min

Masoumeh

Masoumeh - 2016

— 65 min min - Documentary
Number: 39
Show: Sunday 12 November, 17:00, Viktoriasalen
Director:  Sona Moghaddam
Stars:  —

Storyline

This documentary film narrates a real story. The story is about the real lives of real women who are victims of horrendous crime, Acid Attacks. They try to fight against harshness and make a beautiful life. They want to be strong and hopeful and create a better future after their tragic accident.

Collections: EFF-23
Genres: Documentary

Details

Language:  Persian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  —

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 05 min

Bright Life

Bright Life - 2023

— 50 min min - Documentary
Number: 38
Show: Saturday 11 November, 21:30, Viktoraisalen
Director:  Alireza Behbahani
Stars:  —

Storyline

This movie is about a woman named Atefeh Roshan, who has been fighting for her independence for many years. She was forced to get married in childhood by his parents, and after years of endeavors, she succeeded in getting a divorce.

Collections: EFF-23
Genres: Documentary

Details

Country:  Iran
Language:  Persian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  —

Technical Specs

Runtime:  0 h 50 min

The Wives of Haj Abbas

The Wives of Haj Abbas - 2001

— 48 min min - Documentary
Number: 37
Show: Sunday 12 November, 17:00, Viktoriasalen
Director:  Mohsen Abdolvahab
Stars:  —

Storyline

In a quite humorous way, the director brings a nevertheless serious and somewhat heavy story of two old Iranian women, widows of the same man. They live in the same house and lead a life as two close friends but are at the same time rivals.

Collections: EFF-23
Genres: Documentary

Details

Country:  Iran
Language:  Persian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  —

Technical Specs

Runtime:  0 h 48 min

The Nightmare in Alps

The Nightmare in Alps - 2023

— 32 min min - Documentary
Number: 34
Show: Sunday 12 November, 14:00, Viktoriasalen
Director:  Jamshid Golmakani
Stars:  —

Storyline

Every day, hundreds of desperate and oppressed people from different countries secretly travel across the high mountains of the Alps. Some fall down in the way of the dream of freedom and a safe life. The filmmaker hears how four men and one woman have already died on the road and how the freezing weather has taken the legs of several asylum seekers, and they had to amputate them. After reaching Turkey, they had illegally reached the Greek islands in a small boat. From the hellish camps, they have now walked about six thousand kilometers. Everyone is very optimistic about getting asylum. They have high hopes and dreams of their beautiful future life in Europe. But the nightmare is not over. It is a simultaneous filming of the inner call of identity on a journey as an exile filmmaker and intellectual person faced with the asylum seekers' future exile.

Collections: EFF-23
Genres: Documentary

Details

Country:  France
Language:  Persian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  —

Technical Specs

Runtime:  0 h 32 min

Leila

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
Stars:  —

Storyline

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

Details

Country:  Documentary
Language:  Dari, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Ginestra Film AB

Technical Specs

Runtime:  0 h 25 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
Stars:  —

Storyline

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

Details

Country:  Canada,  Iran
Language:  Persian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Baraheni Film Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 10 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
Stars:  —

Storyline

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

Details

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
Stars:  —

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

Details

Country:  Turkey
Language:  Turkish, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Mesepotamia Cinema Collective, Culture Center

Technical Specs

Runtime:  0 h 50 min

Beirut Eye of the Storm

Beirut Eye of the Storm - 2021

— 75 min min - Documentary
Number: 22
Show: Saturday 11 November, 16:00, Hagabion Sal 1 | Tuesday 14 November, 18:30, Folkets Hus Hammarkullen
Director:  Mai Masri
Stars:  —

Storyline

In October 2019, four progressive women are documenting the uprising in Beirut. They are journalist Hanine, Iraqi camerawoman Lujain, and Noel and Michelle, two artist sisters whose often-ironic songs have made them a voice for their generation. The prevailing mood is one of hope and change. But a few months later, Covid-19 has locked down the city, and all optimism seems to have evaporated. This non-chronological account of a tumultuous period in recent Lebanese history loops back and forth between uprising and lockdown, with the four women calling one another and the film's director, Mai Masri, on video. They express their opinions about current events and place them into a historical perspective, offering glimpses into their personal lives. The devastating blow of the explosion at the Port of Beirut was still to come just ten months after the uprising. Will the young women be able to hold onto their dream of a new Lebanon? Four young women in Beirut document a turbulent period in recent Lebanese history, from the uprising against the ruling regime to the subsequent lockdown and then, just months later, the gigantic explosion at the port.

Collections: EFF-23
Genres: Documentary

Details

Country:  Lebanon
Language:  Arabic, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Nour Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 15 min