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Shahid

Narges Kalhor • Germany • 2024 • 84 min
Romanian Premiere
A tragi-comedy, Shahid cleverly satirizes the trans-generational patriarchal structures in Iranian society, religious fanaticism and the statute of refugees in Central Europe.
The Iranian-born filmmaker Narges Shahid Kalhor lives as a political refugee in Bavaria and wants to legally rid herself of the name "Shahid", inherited from a great-great-grandfather who was declared a "martyr". Kalhor mixes tropes from documentary, auto-fiction and musicalto dramatize her family ties to men who have long been in power in Iran and, accordingly,to exorcise the ghosts of her past.
Original Title:Shahid
Director:Narges Kalhor
Music: Marja Burchard
Editors: Frank J. Mülle, Narges Kalhor
Cinematographer: Felix Pflieger
Producer: Michael Kalb
Production Company: Michael Kalb Film Production
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