#arezoo

[hgulnaz]

duniyā kī mahfiloñ se uktā gayā huuñ yā rab

kyā lutf anjuman kā jab dil hī bujh gayā ho

shorish se bhāgtā huuñ dil DhūñDtā hai merā

aisā sukūt jis par taqrīr bhī fidā ho

martā huuñ ḳhāmushī par ye aarzū hai merī

dāman meñ koh ke ik chhoTā sā jhoñpaḌā ho

āzād fikr se huuñ uzlat meñ din guzārūñ

duniyā ke ġham kā dil se kāñTā nikal gayā ho

lazzat sarod kī ho chiḌiyoñ ke chahchahoñ meñ

chashme kī shorishoñ meñ baajā sā baj rahā ho

gul kī kalī chaTak kar paiġhām de kisī kā

sāġhar zarā sā goyā mujh ko jahāñ-numā ho

ho haath kā sirhānā sabze kā ho bichhaunā

sharmā.e jis se jalvat ḳhalvat meñ vo adā ho

mānūs is qadar ho sūrat se merī bulbul

nanhe se dil meñ us ke khaTkā na kuchh mirā ho

saf bāñdhe donoñ jānib buuTe hare hare hoñ

naddī kā saaf paanī tasvīr le rahā ho

ho dil-fareb aisā kohsār kā nazāra

paanī bhī mauj ban kar uTh uTh ke dekhtā ho

āġhosh meñ zamīñ kī soyā huā ho sabza

phir phir ke jhāḌiyoñ meñ paanī chamak rahā ho

paanī ko chhū rahī ho jhuk jhuk ke gul kī Tahnī

jaise hasīn koī ā.īna dekhtā ho

mehñdī lagā.e sūraj jab shaam kī dulhan ko

surḳhī liye sunahrī har phuul kī qabā ho

rātoñ ko chalne vaale rah jaa.eñ thak ke jis dam

ummīd un kī merā TuuTā huā diyā ho

bijlī chamak ke un ko kuTiyā mirī dikhā de

jab āsmāñ pe har sū bādal ghirā huā ho

pichhle pahr kī koyal vo sub.h kī mo.azzin

maiñ us kā ham-navā huuñ vo merī ham-navā ho

kānoñ pe ho na mere dair o haram kā ehsāñ

rauzan hī jhoñpaḌī kā mujh ko sahar-numā ho

phūloñ ko aa.e jis dam shabnam vazū karāne

ronā mirā vazū ho naala mirī duā ho

is ḳhāmushī meñ jaa.eñ itne buland naale

tāroñ ke qāfile ko merī sadā dirā ho

har dardmand dil ko ronā mirā rulā de

behosh jo paḌe haiñ shāyad unheñ jagā de

-Allama Iqbal, Ek Arezoo.

[whileiamdying]

Holy Spider: why this Iranian neo-noir is attracting so much controversy

FILM & TV FEATURE

Director Ali Abbasi talks about his new film, Holy Spider – an evocative exploration of misogyny in Iran, which follows the real-life story of early 00s serial killer Saeed Hanaei.

20 January 2023 Text: Nick Chen

Holy Spider seems to have captured a moment. The Persian-language serial-killer thriller, written and directed by Ali Abbasi, is an evocative exploration of misogyny in Iran, and its theatrical release has run in parallel with the country’s protests for women’s rights. However, on a Zoom call from LA in mid-January, the 42-year-old genre-hopper suggests it’s not that simple. “I don’t feel like my movie is a topical movie,” says Abbasi. “It’s not about the plight of Iranian women. It’s not about how bad the government is. It’s a cinematic experience I’m proud of, that I finetuned for many years, and is about something more universal that sometimes gets drowned in the political conversation.

“But I’m happy that every time my movie gets mentioned, the uprising in Iran comes up. It’s such a huge moment. If I can get people’s attention to it, that’s great.”

Though Holy Spider, which was shot in Jordan, resembles an Iran-set Se7en, its lurid, movie-ready plot draws from the real-life case of Saeed Hanaei, a war veteran who murdered 16 women in 2000 and 2001, landing himself the nickname of the “Spider Killer”. As documented by Abbasi’s script, Hanaei’s choice of victim – he sought out sex workers – meant that Mashad’s conservatives considered him to be a local hero.

The support for Hanaei (played with a chilling amiability by Mehdi Bajestani) is particularly sinister as the film’s first half depicts several of the killings from his POV, as well as the façade of a friendly father he presented on the side. So much so, at Cannes, a Guardian critic tweeted, “I hate that I was made to watch this hateful, reprehensible, atrocious motion picture…  I am confident (hopeful?) it will never see the light of day in American theatres.” In actuality, the film was picked up by Neon in the US and MUBI in the UK; it’s also shortlisted as Denmark’s entry for Best International Feature at the Oscars.

Chuckling when I reference the tweet, Abbasi posits that film critics tend to underestimate general audiences, and that they themselves can be narrow-minded. “These people expect something from an Iranian movie,” the director says. “It’s the Nespresso principle. When you go to a festival, you have the cool movie from the US, the edgy movie from Korea, and then the movie about misery told in a metaphorical way that’s heavily censored from Iran. When my movie doesn’t behave like an Iranian movie, they think it’s flawed.”

He continues, “I’ve seen reactions change from Cannes, some from the people who felt the movie was getting pleasure out of women being tortured in close-ups. A few months later, they understood there was a context for it when the uprising in Iran started. Nowadays, I get requests from feminist magazines, and it’s seen as a feminist film.”

After all, the real protagonist of Holy Spider is Arezoo Rahimi, a journalist who tracks down the Spider Killer, even disguising herself as a sex worker to attract his attention. The role is played by Zar Amir Ebrahimi, a casting director for the film who ended up playing the lead when the original actor dropped out at the last moment. While Ebrahimi has prior screen experience – she was a former TV star in Iran who fled the country following the leak of a sex tape – there’s still noticeable grit to a performance that won her the Best Actress prize at Cannes.

‘There’s the DNA of the Islamic Republic in this. The suppression of women and sexuality isn’t a fluke; it’s very much part of the system, and what keeps them going. I think that’s the main reason they’re so angry with us. They look at our movie and see themselves in the mirror. And they don’t like it’

Abbasi himself has a history of bizarre, unconventional films that are oddly watchable despite how their premises read on paper. While Abbasi lived in Iran during the years Holy Spider took place, he went to film school in Denmark, which was where he shot the 2016 slow-burn horror Shelley. However, his breakthrough was 2018’s Border, a Swedish, transgressive, gender-bending romance that toys with prosthetics, trauma, and the endless possibilities of the human body.

Tellingly, Holy Spider thanks two genre titans, Bong Joon-ho and David Lynch, in its end credits. The former, a friend of Abbasi’s, offered feedback on drafts and early cuts; the latter, more of an acquaintance, is a lifelong inspiration. I ask Abbasi to what extent he wanted Holy Spider to be as entertaining as, say, Parasite, when it’s also dealing with real tragedies.

“I don’t do a product,” says Abbasi. “When you do a studio movie, it’s like ice cream. An idea goes through a process of development. Prototypes are tested and tweaked. But my way of working is more intuitive. Do I want it to be entertaining? Yes and no. Because the subject matter is so heavy, it’s important there’s a force against its inertia. I want to give people motivation to wait for the next minute. Some people will find the decisions tasteless, and others vice-versa. It’s something I’m really aware of.”

The Lynch influence is more apparent in the neo-noir lighting of Mashad’s night-time sequences, including a blowjob scene that required a producer to smuggle a prosthetic penis into Jordan. Shortly after the Cannes premiere, Iran’s culture minister Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaeili warned, “If persons from inside Iran are involved with the film Holy Spider, they will surely receive punishment from the Cinema Organisation of Iran.”

“Iran has always been seen as a conservative country,” says Abbasi. “But it’s a country where everything is almost hypersexualised. You’re acutely aware – at least in the heterosexual context – that when you go on a bus, you go to the men’s part or women’s part. You shouldn’t touch women in this way or that way. I worked with women for years without shaking their hand.

“But what makes it very charged is that there’s a whole system that wants to intrude on people’s lives. They want to literally control how and who and where you fuck. At the same time, there are a lot of contradictions. Sex outside of marriage is banned and frowned upon, as is prostitution. On the other hand, you have temporary marriage, which is basically state prostitution that happens in religious offices.”

He continues, “There’s the DNA of the Islamic Republic in this. The suppression of women and sexuality isn’t a fluke; it’s very much part of the system, and what keeps them going. I think that’s the main reason they’re so angry with us. They look at our movie, specifically Saeed’s character, and see themselves in the mirror. And they don’t like it.”

Also during the pandemic, Abbasi was a director on HBO’s adaptation of the videogame The Last of Us. Kantemir Balagov, the intended helmer of the pilot, left due to creative differences, and Abbasi commented to IndieWire in May 2022 that “the Hollywood system is a little bit like working in Iran for me. I can’t do it.”

When asked about those remarks now, Abbasi says, “I just saw the first episode, and I think it’s turned out great. I’m happy and proud of working on it. It’s not like I’m negative about it. Coming from Europe, [Hollywood] has strange rules and regulations, and that’s not a secret. There’s a lack of transparency, and everyone’s afraid of tackling controversial subjects. Those things remind me of Iran, absolutely.

“But Iranian cinema is a propaganda machine for a criminal, ruthless, brutal regime. I don’t think that’s where Hollywood is, really.”

Holy Spider is out in UK cinemas on January 20

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[joriekerottier]

to gnaw away / to consume / to become worn away (2023)

working from paper I got from my exchange with Arezoo Bharthania (collab between Durden and Ray, USA, and ruimteCAESUUR, NL)

collected polished-by-the-sea bricks, packaging plastics, piece of a roller blind, document clip, copper wire, textile hoem decor fragment

[luminalunii97]

tw: suic*de, harassment

An iranian highschool student took her own life after receiving relentless harassment by the school staff over hijab dress code. School system in Iran is as awful as you can imagine. the harassment, the belittlings, the use of misogynistic language to keep girls in line, and the physical and verbal abuse. The principal and management staff in iranian schools are normally students' first bullies.

Things I've personally experienced at school, first hand (happened to me) or second hand (happened to my friends), are: getting slapped (x2), getting your hair pulled violently, getting your uniform ripped, getting suspended for three days because you dared to wear makeup/pluck your eyebrows/dye your hair, getting permanently expelled because you brought a cellphone to school (electronic devices are forbidden at school), getting called a wh*re by school principal because they found a love note from your boyfriend in your bag (the school has the right to check students belongings including looking into their bags and doing body checks to see if they have illegal things on them), and using fear inducing tactics to threaten you into following their backward rules (for example in my highschool they used to force us into watching "educational" videos about girls who got r*ped because they didn't have hijab and talked to boys, or video simulations of what hell looks like for women who don't wear hijab. In both instances, some of my classmates got so sick that they spent the rest of the hours crying, and one of my best friends literally threw up)

These are pretty common experiences for many iranian girls at school. Needless to say, many iranian teen girls hate school, have very low self esteem and a lot of mental health issues. Society is already pretty unsafe and hateful towards woman, school as an extention of the regime is the cherry on cake for us.

Of course the school experience is different from person to person based on the city/region/environment, but the difference is in the degree of how bad it was.

[Tweet made by Iranian journalist and human rights activist, Masih Alinejad, Nov 5, 2024:

Forced Hijab Claims Another Life: 16-Year-Old Arezoo Khavari Takes Her Life After School Harassment Over Dress Code Violations💔

A 16-year-old schoolgirl named #ArezooKhavari tragically took her own life by jumping from a building after being sent back from a school trip for violating the dress code by wearing jeans instead of the prescribed uniform.

Her grieving father revealed that this was not an isolated incident; Arezoo had faced repeated harassment from the school for her attire and her non-compliance with the mandatory hijab policy. Last year school almost refused to enroll her.

Following her death, her father lodged a formal complaint against the school authorities, accusing them of negligence and insensitivity, especially for their failure to offer any condolences or follow up after the incident.

A reliable source told me, that she was threatened with expulsion after the school’s vice principal handed over a video of her dancing without hijab to the principal for disciplinary action.

This case echoes a broader issue in Iran where in 2023, nearly 1,000 schoolgirls were victims of poisoning attacks, believed to be linked to the enforcement of discriminatory hijab laws in gender-segregated schools.

The responsibility for Arezoo’s death falls squarely on the shoulders of the Islamic Regime in Iran. /End of tweet]

#woman life freedom

[on-break-read-my-last-post]

Iranian woman reportedly paralysed in shooting over alleged hijab law violation

[forestgremlinnn]

Culture representation

I'm having alhaitham brainrot's so hear me out on this. Sumeru is based on parts of Arab,Persian and indian culture and I'm proud to say I'm persian and I just. When I saw the Persian/Arab names in the game and foods like taachin (ته چین) I was so happy to finally get represented and I Can't handle the brainrot alone.

Would he call you habibti(حبیبی)? Would he call you a Persian term of endearment like azizam(my dear) or eshgham(my love)? Don't get me started on love songs and poetry. The Persian language is known to be one of the most poetic languages,and they're beautiful. He would send you poetry which reminds him of you, definitely. Love songs can be wonderful if you find the right singer. A personal favorite of mine stands to be sang ghabr arezoo even if it's a little sad.

Speaking Persian/Arabic with each other and reading hafev and Saadi's poetry (two of the most well known poet's in Iran and Persian culture) and trying to figure out and translate them.

Making Persian dishes like ghormeh sabzi or khoresht karafs with him.

..is it obvious I'm going insane over sumeru and it's relations to my culture?

[warningsine]

A woman is reported to have been left paralysed after being shot by Iranian police who were attempting to stop her car over alleged violations of Iran’s draconian hijab laws.

According to human rights groups and sources inside Iran, Arezoo Badri was driving home in the northern city of Noor on 22 July when the police attempted to pull her over after her car was identified as being on an impoundment list.

Last year, as part of a clampdown on women defying Iran’s compulsory dress code, Iranian authorities said they would use CCTV to identify female drivers who were failing to cover their hair, and confiscate their vehicles.

Human Rights Activists in Iran, a nonprofit NGO, said it believed Badri might have been seen or filmed driving with her head uncovered in the days before the shooting and an alert had been placed on her number plate.

When police attempted to stop Badri on the 22 July, she allegedly failed to comply with their orders and police opened fire on the moving vehicle. A police commander in Noor confirmed to local media that a driver had been shot when they failed to comply with an order to pull over, but did not name Badri.

According to Mamlekate, an Iranian citizen journalists’ organisation, Badri fell into a coma after being hit by a bullet. She has been moved to a hospital in Tehran.

A Tehran-based physician who secretly treated survivors of sexual assault and people with pellet injuries during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests after Mahsa Amini’s death in 2022 told the Guardian: “We have had no news on her condition because it’s a heavily guarded military hospital and owned by the police. I haven’t got any doctors from the hospital who will give information.”

Masih Alinejad, an exiled Iranian journalist, claimed she had received details of the shooting and photos of Badri from sources close to her family but that immediate relatives were being pressured not to publicly discuss her situation.

“When I first received the photos from the relative and heard that Arezoo is a mother of two children, I couldn’t stop crying and I kept thinking of my own son,” she said. “How will someone explain in the 21st century to those young children that their mother was shot by the police for the crime of not covering her hair?”

[swiftsnowmane]

Informed sources told Radio Farda that ten Baha’i women sentenced to lengthy prison terms by the First Branch of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court, presided over by Mohammadreza Tavakoli, endured various forms of “psychological torture” and “threats of physical torture” during their detention.

According to information received by Radio Farda, these women were threatened with “rape, sexual assault, fingernail pulling, sitting on an electric chair, and being scalded with boiling water” while being interrogated in the Intelligence Office building in Isfahan.

On October 23, 2023, Radio Farda reported that Yeganeh Aghahi, Yeganeh Rouhbakhsh, Negin Khademi, Shana Shoghi-Far, Mozhgan Shahrzaei, Parastoo Hakim, Arezoo Sobhaniyan, Neda Badakhsh, Neda Emadi, and Bahareh Lotfi had been detained by security forces in Isfahan and, after about two months, were released from the women’s prison in Isfahan.

The Isfahan Revolutionary Court’s First Branch sentenced eight of these women to ten years in prison and a fine of 100 million tomans, while two others received five years and a fine of 50 million tomans. Additionally, they all received two-year bans on leaving the country and using social media.

Torture and Threats of “Rape and Death” During Interrogation

Radio Farda’s information reveals that interrogators in Isfahan’s Intelligence Office used items such as “mobile phones and interrogation papers” to strike the women’s heads and faces to force them into making confessions against themselves, other detained women, and even family members and friends.

Based on the information received, interrogators from the Isfahan Intelligence Office, on multiple occasions, showed detainees boiling water and threatened to throw it on their faces. Instead, they splashed the contents of a bottle of ice-cold water on their faces.

In some cases, the interrogators placed an “electric chair” in front of these women, warning them that if they did not confess to “dictated statements,” they would be forced to sit in it and receive “electric shocks.”

The women were also reportedly subjected to hearing “sounds of other women being tortured,” with one instance designed to make a detainee believe another woman had died under torture.

According to these audio files, during the separate transfers of these women from the Isfahan Women’s Prison (Dolatabad) to the Intelligence Office building for interrogation, and in the interrogation rooms, no female officers were present. Instead, two or three male officers repeatedly threatened these women with “harassment and even sexual assault” through their behavior.

Based on information obtained by Radio Farda, “a male interrogator would sometimes get so close to these women that they could even feel his breath.”

Additionally, during the interrogations, which often lasted “over 12 hours,” if these Baha’i women requested to change their clothes due to temperature changes, the interrogators forced them to change their clothes in front of them.

Psychological Trauma Remains

Informed sources reported to Radio Farda that nearly ten months after their temporary release, some of these women are still grappling with psychological trauma from “torture threats and detention.” Some have developed “post-traumatic stress disorder” (PTSD), experiencing anxiety, flashbacks, and nightmares triggered by daily sounds or events.

Accordingly, several of these women have developed “post-traumatic stress disorder” (PTSD). They continue to experience flashbacks to the interrogation and detention scenes when they hear loud noises or encounter excitement in daily life, leading to restlessness and nightmares.

“Post-traumatic stress disorder” can occur after direct experiences of death, death threats, rape, sexual harassment, and similar events. Despite treatment, it may persist with the affected person for life.

Informed sources told Radio Farda that one of these women lost “more than five kilograms” after her release and began “medication treatment nine months later to help her return to a normal life.”

Additionally, the intensity of the “torture threats” and interrogations during detention has left one of these women “terrified of hearing her full name,” as it brings back interrogation images.

Moreover, due to the pressures experienced in detention, this woman has developed “memory issues,” struggling to recall certain events and retain some information long-term.

Confiscation of Property for the “Fund for Muslims”

The First Branch of the Revolutionary Court, in its ruling against these women, has ordered the confiscation of their mobile phones, laptops, all digital devices, any jewelry and gold they possess, as well as any amount of U.S. and Australian dollars they have, “for the benefit of the Fund for Muslims.”

The court has also sentenced eight of these women to pay a fine of 100 million tomans each, and the other two to pay a fine of 50 million tomans each.

Additionally, at the time of detention, any property deeds found in these women’s homes were also confiscated.

A few months after their detention, representatives from the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order, which operates under Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, visited the family home of at least one of these women, whose deed had been seized, to inquire about the property’s ownership.

Ownership of many lands and properties confiscated from Baha’i citizens has been transferred to the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order Headquarters following confiscation by the Revolutionary Court.

Based on this, there is concern that, in addition to the seized assets, the Revolutionary Court is attempting to confiscate the homes of these citizens in favor of the mentioned Headquarters.

Last December, the Baha’i International Community reported that, two months prior, the Islamic Republic’s security forces had arrested “40 Baha’is” and searched the homes of “nearly one hundred Baha’i families” in various cities across Iran.

On August 1 of this year, 18 United Nations reporters and experts emphasized in a letter the intensifying persecution of Baha’i women in Iran, highlighting that they face double discrimination for being both “women and Baha’is.”

The authors of this letter described the Iranian government’s actions against Baha’i women as “systematic,” citing cases of arrests, summons for interrogation, disappearances, home searches of Baha’i women, property confiscations, travel restrictions, and extended detentions.

This past May, the Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced an additional 15 Baha’i women to a total of 75 years in prison on charges of “promoting” Baha’i beliefs.

Despite the presence of 300,000 Baha’is in Iran, the Islamic Republic does not officially recognize the Baha’i faith. Iranian authorities have repeatedly labeled Baha’is as “spies and enemies,” issuing numerous rulings over the past four decades for executions, arrests, imprisonment, denial of education and business rights, and the destruction of homes and cemeteries of Baha’i followers.

[coolcarsntrucksngunsnusa]

One woman, SifanHassan, is celebrated worldwide for winning an Olympic medal while promoting the hijab. At the same time, another woman, Arezoo Badri, refused to submit to Iran’s mandatory hijab. For this, the police shot at her car, leaving her paralyzed. She now lies in a hospital bed, forgotten by the world. Her photo was sent to me by her friend, trembling with fear of being arrested for sharing it.

Who will you choose to give a voice to?

"We, the women of Iran, refuse to let the Islamic regime use our bodies to promote their ideology. For this defiance, we pay with our lives. But tragically, this struggle doesn’t make international headlines anymore. The world is painfully unjust, and it breaks my heart but we won’t give up our fight."

Arezoo Badri

[legacyhypesquad]

Out of the Ordinary Friday (O.O.T.O. Friday in short) is a weekly resource post to help you come up with names for your many, many pixel people. And it’s a chance for You to finally tell people about the weird, puzzling, cool, amazing, beautiful names you come across in your daily life!

If you have names you want to share with the world, do drop by the hypesquads ask box and submit whatever out of the ordinary name you came across. Your submission will be cited, if you give the Hypesquad the chance. Please only submit first names.

Please note:

This category is NOT a place to start or continue bullying campaigns, to do call outs, or to be classist/racist/sexist about cultural naming conventions. If such behaviour is noted by the Hypesquad team, consequences will follow.

And now to this week’s names!

Ravonna - thank you, @tipsy-clouds

Omosigho

Kaddi

Sondos - thank you, @goody2chouxs

Gundula

Arezoo

Elyon

Jale

Friedlinde

Sharareh - thank you, anon/s

[secondlifep]

Enjoy being alone - © Arezoo

[joriekerottier]

Meanwhile in L.A., 'Crossing borders' will be on view starting today.

With work by Giel Louws, Hans Overvliet, Valerie Wilcox, Ben Jackel and a collaboration between me and Arezoo Bharthania (see pictures).

An artistic exchange between artists of ruimteCAESUUR and DurdenandRay

[whistlr]

Ye del migeh, beram, beram

(One part of my heart(me) says go go)

Ye delam migeh, naram, naram

(Another part says do not go do not go)

Taghat nadereh, delam, delam

(I don't have the strength)

Bi to chekonam?

(What can i do without u?)

Pisheh Esgheh ziba, ziba

(When i have my beautiful love)

Kheili kuchike, donya, donya

(The world is very small)

Ba yade to am harja, harja

(I am always thinking about you anywhere, anywhere)

Tarkat nakonam

(So I don't leave you)

Soltaneh Ghalbam! to hasti, to hasti

(You are the king of my heart)

Darvazehaye delam ra shekasti

(You broke down all the gates/doors to my heart)

Paymane yari be ghalbam to basti

(and you promise to help me)

Ba man pay-vasti

(you joined me)

Aknoon agar az to dooram be harja

(Now if i am away from you in anywhere)

Bar yare digar nabandam delam ra

(I do not think of anyone else)

Sarsharam az arezoo o tamanah

(I am full of wish and desire)

Ay yare ziba

(My beautiful love)

[spokanefavs]

Cassandra Benefield writes I Stand with the Women of Iran: ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ after attending a panel at Eastern Washington University.

"How do I write something that has any meaning in response to the brave actions of thousands of bold and fearless women fighting for their freedom in Iran? Many of whom imprisoned or killed for it?

How do I begin to empathize with a situation that I cannot even imagine going through?

I don’t know, but I want to try."

EWU Diversity and Inclusion

[kinoberlino]

Premierenabend am 25. Mai im Moviemento

Donnerstag, 25. Mai 2023 um 22 Uhr im Kino Moviemento, Kottbusser Damm 22 in Berlin-Kreuzberg  

DE: Wir zeigen regelmäßig am Ende des Monats Eure selbstgemachten Kurzfilme im besten Kino beim Open Screening. Ihr bringt eigenes Publikum mit! Europas auf Festivals meistgespielter Regisseur Dave moderiert die Publikumsgespräche mit Euch. Höfliches Publikum bleibt natürlich bis zum Ende im Saal. Auch frische KinoBerlino-Filme sind willkommen. Bitte englische Untertitel unter deutsche Filme für unser gemischtes Publikum einfügen! Wir reichen wieder die Spendenbox für unsere ukrainischen Freundinnen herum, also bringt bitte Papiergeld mit!

EN: We present your own shorts in the cinema regularly as open screenings. You bring your audience. New KinoBerlino productions are welcome. Europe’s most often selected film director at festivals (Dave Lojek) hosts the show. We have another “HIGH ROLLERS” edition with ambitous excellent projects. Polite audience remains seated until the end of the last film. Please make either German or English subtitles, depending on the language of your film. We shall collect donations for our Ukrainian refugee friends in the cinema, so please bring some € bills!

UKR: Ми регулярно представляємо ваші власні короткометражки в кінотеатрі у вигляді відкритих сеансів. Ви приводите свою аудиторію. Чекаємо нових постановок КіноБерліно. Ведучим шоу є короткометражний режисер короткометражного фільму, який найчастіше показують на кінофестивалях у Європі (Дейв Лоєк). У нас ще один випуск «HIGH ROLLERS» з амбітними чудовими проектами. Ввічливі глядачі залишаються сидіти до кінця останнього фільму. Будь ласка, зробіть німецькі або англійські субтитри, залежно від мови вашого фільму. Ми передаємо скриньку для пожертвувань для наших українських друзів, тож приносьте паперові гроші!

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Хепі-енду не буде - NO HAPPY END by Bohdan Zhelieznyak • Ukrainian summer camp complications.

ZHINA by Arezoo Salehi · The flower of protest in Iran blooms again.

MEDICAL TOURISM by Samson Onoja Itodo · Nigerian shamanism around a politician in Berlin.

HUMAN ERROR by Erica Kwok · How to love an android?

KATHARSIS by Yang Göttrupp · Mental breakdown stylized into a parable.

PRICE by Arijana Kovacic · A toxic friendship unravels.

EROTOGENY von Victor Hernandez-Urbina · Filmosophical essay about falling in- and out of love.

[forestgremlinnn]

hey i want to make an al-haitham playlist and want to put some arab/persian/etc songs on it but ive never been good at finding songs so i was wondering if you had any suggestions or songs that remind you of him? because currently the only non english song on there is a turkish one, the one that everyone was editing al-haitham to awhile back lmao ( and some tagalog songs too hehe )

Hi sweetie,of course! <3 please do send the link once it's finished if you're comfortable!

Asemane abi - viguen

Sang ghabr arezoo - Artoosh

Lalaei - viguen

unfortunately I don't have many songs that remind me of him because most songs are the type to play at a Persian wedding .. and for Arabic there's a song my mom listens to but it reminds me more of kaveh then alhaitham. Sorry if I wasn't of much help.