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Film and talk: a solidarity event for the protesters in Iran

Including video footage Daughters of Iran documenting the current situation of civil unrest, cut and edited by Sepideh Farsi

Panelists:
Sepideh Farsi (Film director)
Dr. Maryam Palizban (theater studies scholar, actress, activist Feminists4Jina )
Düzen Tekkal (Filmmaker, TV journalist, founder of HÁWAR.help)
Moderator: Melika Foroutan (actress)

Followed by the screening of Tehran without Permission, a film by Sepideh Farsi, producer: Javad Djavahery, 83 min. The film is shown in Farsi with English subtitles. The discussion is held in German.

On 16 September 2022, Guidance Patrol officers killed 22-year-old Jina Amini in Tehran for reportedly failing to properly wear the hijab. Jina Amini’s death sparked feminist protests across the country, resulting in the present revolutionary unrest. In Iran, every day people get arrested, violated, tortured and killed, and we are seeing students and pupils, old and young generations from all walks of life, religious backgrounds and ethnic groups taking to the streets demanding the fall of the regime.

The internet is full of video footage documenting the street protests in Iran; people dancing and singing revolutionary songs, people burning their headscarves, people cutting their hair. But at the same time, pictures of violence and brutal repression circulate, photographs of those who were murdered, name lists that are growing longer by the day, in an effort to win the fight against oblivion with a hashtag to give the victims back their individual face and make sure they are not forgotten. These images are the only channel of communicating with the outside world. One by one, they assemble to create a unique chronicle of this historic moment.

Tehran Without Permission is a portrait of the city of Tehran, says director Sepideh Farsi. It shows a city full of contradictions and inconsistencies, oscillating between religious conformity and laicism., tradition and modernity, poverty and wealth, high-tech progress and retro urbanism. The film was shot entirely with a camera phone, allowing Farsi to roam the streets of Tehran without attracting too much attention, and approach the persons she was filming at close distance. Also featuring is the music of an Iranian rap group, who was never allowed to play in public, but is nevertheless very popular in Iran. The film captures a city in transition and a society full of contradictions between religious doctrine and extravagant partying. A quite fascinating collage – Tehran up-close. (Source: Film fest Hamburg, 2009)

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