Shahid + FILMGESPRÄCH

In the organizer's words:

Sun, August 4, 2024: Matinée followed by a discussion with the director Narges Shahid Kalhor

Regular screenings:

• Thu, August 1, 2024 - Wed, August 7, 2024 at 5:00 pm

Performers: Baharak Abdolifard, Nima Nazarinia, Narges Kalhor...

• DE/EN/FA 2024
• 84 min
• Director: Narges Shahid Kalhor
• FSK: from 12 years
• FBW rating especially valuable

Shahid is a personal film about the balancing act of reconciling oneself with the past, the present and oneself.

Director Narges Shahid Kalhor no longer wants to be called "Shahid" (martyr) by her surname and stages an actress as herself, who is supposed to set about changing her surname. Just then, her bizarre great-grandfather appears. A man who was declared a martyr in Iran after his heroic death a hundred years ago and gave his descendants the honorary name "Shahid". He wants to stop his great-granddaughter from carrying out her plan.
The temporal levels intermingle and the director and actress find themselves in a nerve-wracking conflict. While the film formally jumps between reality, fiction, theater and musical, everyone fails in their plans: The director because of the obstacles of bureaucracy, the actress because of the director's demands, the great-grandfather
the granddaughter's will and finally the film itself. The film questions all kinds of radical ideologies and doesn't always take itself seriously.