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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Country:  France
Language:  Persian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  —

Technical Specs

Runtime:  0 h 32 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
Stars:  —

Storyline

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
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

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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
Stars:  —

Storyline

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

Seven Winter in Tehran

Seven Winter in Tehran - 2023

— 97 min min - Documentary
Number: 16
Show: Friday 10 November, 18:30, Bio Roy | Tuesday 14 November, 21:00, Hagabion Sal 1
Director:  Steffi Niederzoll
Stars:  —

Storyline

Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. When he tries to rape her, she stabs him in self-defense. Later that day, she is arrested for murder. Her trial resulted in a death penalty sentence. Thanks to personal and secretly recorded videos provided by Reyhaneh's family, their testimonies, and the letters written by Reyhaneh in prison, the film retraces the fate of a woman who becomes a symbol of resistance and women's rights even beyond the borders of Iran.

Collections: EFF-23
Genres: Documentary

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Country:  France,  Germany
Language:  Persian, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Made In Germany Filmproduktion, Gloria Films, TS Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 37 min

Mina – The Price of Freedom

Mina - The Price of Freedom - 2022

— 70 min min - Documentary
Number: 14
Show: Wednesday 15 November, 18:30, Selma Lagerlöfs Center
Director:  Hesam Yousefi
Stars:  —

Storyline

The documentary "Mina – The Price of Freedom" portrays Mina Ahadi, an Iranian human rights activist who now lives in Cologne. Mina has been fighting against executions and stoning’s in Iran for decades – and thus became a target of the regime herself. After massive campaigns by numerous activists for civil and political rights worldwide, including Mina, the pressure of world opinion forced the regime of religious fundamentalism that rules Iran to stop the execution of stoning sentences. An example in this context was the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. The portrait is made by Hesam Yousefi, an Iranian human rights activist who lives in exile in Germany.

Collections: EFF-23
Genres: Documentary

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Country:  Germany
Language:  Persian, Kurdi, German, English text

Company Credits

Production Companies:  —

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 10 min