New Voices from Afghanistan: Film, Performance and Poetry
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with Omid Ahmad Adrak, Vega Moqarabi, Huda Hashimi, Uranus Mosamen and others
Location: Ioakimion Girls High School
29.11.2024, 5 pm – 7 pm
Film Screening
Mirror
Director: Vega Moqarabi
Genre: Short Fiction
Date & Country of Production: 2016, Afghanistan
Language: Dari, English Subtitles
Duration: 10 minutes
Synopsis: This is the story of a psychotic man who has had an accident and is facing his most vibrant Fears.
Dera
Director: Omid Ahmad Adrak
Genre: Short Documentary
Date & Country of Production: 2018, Afghanistan
Language: Dari, English Subtitles
Duration: 10 minutes
Synopsis: In a remote and deprived Afghanistan, poor families from one of the remote villages have migrated to the center of the province due to drought. They live in a room and the father is unemployed, but the mother is slightly emblem with embroidery, but the father is not happy with the work of the mother.
Performance
My Burka and Me: Voices Beneath the Veil. Unveiling the layers of silence and strength.
15 Minutes Performance by Huda Hashimi
Poetry
Sorrow and Hope
Contemporary Poetry by Uranus Mosamen and others
Memento
Memento as a term for artistic discourse shall serve to perceive absences and offer ways to inhale and exhale memory to avoid the acceptance of neglect. Mahalla Memento aims to create a new vision of tomorrow by asking artists to work on the everyday life of the overlooked.
The artists are free to use any artistic form or style. Innovative interpretations of the leitmotif are appreciated.
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