Norah Shapiro
, 2018
, 89 min
Synopsis: Ilhan Omar, a young, hijab-wearing mother of three, takes on two formidable opponents in a highly contested race for a seat in the Minnesota State Legislature. If successful, she will become the first Somali-American lawmaker in the United States. Similar to the classic tale of David and Goliath, Omar, who is up against a 43-year…
February 2023
Sepideh Salarvand, Sahra Mani, Yalda Afsah, Ginan Seidl, Lida Abdul, Aidin Halalzadeh, Shahrbanoo Sadat
Lida Abdul
, 2006
, 6 min
To express the constant feeling of precariousness in the lives of the inhabitants of Afghanistan, Lida Abdul uses local people as actors in her native land to shoot her works. In Brick sellers of Kabul what most strikes the viewer is the confidence in the way Lida Abdul depicts a surreal situation: A row of kids queues…
, 2005
, 5 min
White House represents a government building that was knocked down by a US air strike. Only a few columns (it was a neoclassical style construction) and a few walls of the building stand in their original vertical condition, all the rest has been reduced to rubble. Lida Abdul started painting everything in white, from the small…
Shahrbanoo Sadat
, 2011
, 10 min
Somewhere in Afghanistan, a little girl goes place to place to collect people’s votes.
Sahra Mani
, 2012
, 15 min
In between the famous Baba Mountain in rural Center of Afghanistan there is a village with 2500 families with just two schools for children. Nine-year-old Fakhereh from Afghanistan isn’t content to be a goatherd. She goes to school and enjoys learning. However, she has to walk there on foot and the journey takes two-and-a-half hours….
Yalda Afsah, Ginan Seidl
, 2016
, 30 min
The two-channel installation Bacha Posh is a multifaceted documentary focusing on the Afghan tradition of dressing girls as boys in order for them to be able to fulfill the function of a male family member. Framed by atmospheric shots of urban landscapes in Mazar-e-Sharif, Bacha Posh follows the life of 13-year-old Farahnaz, adding unexpected perspectives…
Aidin Halalzadeh, Sepideh Salarvand
, 2021
, 52 min
Lowland is an intimate portrait of a community of undocumented migrant Afghan children, living and working as garbage collectors in the margins of Tehran. Over the course of five years, the two filmmakers, Sepideh and Aidin, documented their encounters with the children first as ethnographers and volunteer teachers, and later as filmmakers. The film is…
November 2022
Shadi Harouni, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Farnaz Jurabchian, Mohammadreza Jurabchian, Elham Hosseinzadeh, Saeed Dehghani
AT THE DISPOSAL OF HUMANITY Curated by Lila Nazemian, ArteEast Special Projects Curator Featuring works by Shadi Harouni, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Farnaz and Mohammadreza Jurabchian, Elham Hosseinzadeh, and Saeed Dehghani. AT THE DISPOSAL OF HUMANITY presents films made in the past two decades that share perspectives from communities on the periphery of contemporary Iranian society. With…
Shadi Harouni
, 2017
, 17 min
Synopsis: Set in an isolated black pumice quarry in the Kurdish regions of Iran, I Dream the Mountain is Still Whole follows a lone figure, a Marxist dissident and former school teacher, recounting his struggles, hopes, and ideals as a committed revolutionary, all the while carefully negotiating the moonscape terrain of an everchanging mountain. The film is…
