Those DaysFilm and lecture series on the subject of Iran

05/10-07/10/2017
Topkino Vienna & Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT Organized and conceived by Marlies Pöschl, Lydia Nsiah, Costanze Ruhm und Bernhard Staudinger 

Those days are gone,
when from between my eyelids
songs surged like air-drunk bubbles,
and my gaze glided upon everything,
drank it all in like fresh milk.
(Forugh Farrochzād, Those Days)


The film programme and symposium Those Days presents and discusses documentary, art, and essay films related to Iran. To begin with, the collectively produced film Profession: Documentarist (Iran, 2014) presents a kaleidoscopic view of the realities of living and working as a female filmmaker in contemporary Iran. The series of films and lectures presented raises questions about feminism, migration, and diaspora.

Symposium:
Iran’s Women’s Movement: Photography, Desire and Resistance, Dr. Azadeh Fatehrad (lecture)
Stories We Can’t Tell, Sepideh Karami (lecture)
Under the Skin of the City, Matthias Wittmann (lecture)

Films
Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Shari, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei: Profession: Documentarist / Herfeh: Mostanadsaz, IR, 2014, 80 min

Sandra Schäfer: on the set of 1978ff, DE, 2011, 58 min

Keywan Karimi: Writing on the City / Neveshtan bar Shahr, IR, 2015, 60 min

Shirin Barghnavard: Poets of Life / Shaerane Zendegi, IR, 2017, 73 min

Zara Zandieh: Khoshbakhti / Happiness, DE/FR, 2015, 6 min

Sohrab Shahid Saless: In der Fremde / Dar Ghorbat, DE/IR, 1974/1975, 91 min

Miranda Pennell: The Host, GB, 2015, 60 min

Farnaz & Mohammadreza Jurabchian: Overruled / Eteraz Vared Nist, IR, 2016, 58 min

Sahar Salahshoor: Falaknaz, IR, 2015, 59 min