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Octavia’s Visions + In the Name of Scheherazade oder der erste Biergarten in Teheran

OV with English subs
Followed by a talk with Narges Kalhor, Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein and Zara Zandieh

Octavia’s Visions
Zara Zandieh, Germany 2021, 18'

The challenges of the 2020s from the perspective of 2056: environmental destruction, nationalism and the after-effects of colonial racism. Zandieh draws on Black science fiction author Octavia Butler’s work to ask how such problems can be overcome.

In the Name of Scheherazade oder der erste Biergarten in Teheran
Narges Kalhor, Germany 2019, 76'

Kalhor links her own biography to the figure of Scheherazade, Bavarian traditions to contemporary Iran and documentary elements to layers of fiction in unbridled fashion. A humorous play of different forms about cultural ignorance and narration itself.

Narges Kalhor, born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran. She studied directing and visual communication. In 2009, she applied for political asylum in Germany while in the country for a festival. Her graduation film In the Name of Scheherazade premiered at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon and was awarded the Goethe Institut’s prize for best documentary film at DOK Leipzig.

Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein is a curator, researcher, and writer living and working in Berlin. Her work has been featured at SAVVY Contemporary, Sinema Transtopia, and Sinema Kundura, among others. Presently, she is working with Slavs and Tatars and Haverford College on the interdisciplinary project Contest of the Fruits and with Udo Kittelmann and Fondazione Prada on the exhibition Human Brains: piacw.com