[# 8] Co.Lab | Remembrance work • aesthetic and political practices |

Film screenings and talks with the Afghan filmmakers Sahraa Karimi and Shahrbanoo Sadat

June 1, 2022, 6 p.m., Central Linz, Landstraße 36

June 21, 2022, 6 p.m., Kunstuniversität Linz, Domgasse 1, 4th floor, Expostmusik

The event will be held in English; the films have English subtitles.

The Department of Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Audiovisual Media in cooperation with the Oberösterreichische Gesellschaft für Kulturpolitik (gfk oö) invites you to film screenings and talks with Afghan filmmakers Sahraa Karimi and Shahrbanoo Sadat on June 1 and 21, 2022.

June 1, 2022, 6 p.m., Central Linz, Landstraße 36. Sahraa Karimi: Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (AF/IR/FR, 2019, 86 min). Host: Angela Koch

Three Afghan women from different social backgrounds living in Kabul are faced with a major challenge. Hava, a traditional woman who is pregnant, lives with her in-laws. No one seems to care about her. Her only pleasure comes from talking to the baby in her belly. Maryam, an educated TV news reporter, is about to get a divorce from her unfaithful husband, but finds out she is pregnant. Ayesha, an 18-year-old girl, agrees to marry her cousin because she is pregnant, but the baby is from her boyfriend who disappeared upon hearing the news. Each of the women is confronted with dealing with the situation on her own for the first time.

Sahraa Karimi is a university lector, independent film director and screenwriter from Afghanistan. She belongs to second generation of Afghan refugees in Iran. When she was 17 years old, she immigrated to the Slovak Republic, where she lived until age of 28. On August 2012 she returned to Kabul, stablished her own Film Production Company Kapila Multimedia House to support Afghan independent filmmakers and artists.  Sahraa Karimi has received her PhD Degree in the field of Cinema (Fiction Film Directing & Screenwriting) from Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Film and TV Faculty in Bratislava, Slovakia (FTF-VSMU).

She is the first and only woman from Afghanistan, who has a PhD degree in the field of Cinema. She is also the only Afghan filmmaker, who is an active member of Slovak Film and TV Academy. She was forces to leave Afghanistan due to the sudden and unexpected fall of Kabul and the return of the Taliban to power. Currently she is a visiting-professor at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematographia (Rome National Film School) in Rome, Italy.

June 21, 2022, 6 p.m., Kunstuniversität Linz, Domgasse 1, 4th floor, Expostmusik. Shahrbanoo Sadat: Wolf and Sheep (DK/FR/SE/AF/HK/NZ/US, 2016, 86 min). Host: NN

Wolf and Sheep is the debut feature film by Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat. It portrays Afghan society through the eyes of shepherd children; offering a glimpse of a community in a small village in rural Afghanistan and its beliefs, traditions, and stories. One belief involves a Kashmir wolf who walks on two legs. In Sadat’s version, beneath the wolf’s fur is a tall, green fairy woman who takes cruel villagers with her up to the mountain.

Shahrbanoo Sadat (1991) is an Afghan filmmaker who was born in Afghanistan and lived there until August 23, 2021, when she was evacuated to France due to the Taliban takeover.
She has since moved to Germany where she is currently located. Her debut film Wolf and Sheep won the top award at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2016. The film was developed with the Cannes Cinefondation Residency in 2010. Shahrbanoo was 19 years old at the time – the youngest ever selected for the residency. She premiered her second feature, The Orphanage, in the same section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Shahrbanoo studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of “Atelier Varan” in 2009. Her first short fiction Vice Versa One was selected at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2011. In 2013, she opened her own production company “Wolf Pictures” in Kabul. Both Wolf and Sheep and The Orphanage are part of her pentalogy project (five feature films) based on an 800-page autobiographical text by her friend and collaborator Anwar Hashimi. Since 2020, Shahrbanoo has been working on the third part, a romantic comedy set in Kabul before the Taliban’s arrival.

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