The Farsi Film Festival is aimed at film enthusiasts and people who are interested in Iranian and Afghan culture and the Farsi (Persian) language, as well as people who want to learn about the situation in Iran and Afghanistan and show solidarity with the people there.
For over 1,400 days, millions of girls in Afghanistan have been silenced, their classrooms locked and their futures controlled, while the world looks on in silence. This year’s Farsi Film Festival opens with the film Writing Hawa, a powerful documentary about Afghan women’s struggle for education. A story that begins with hope and determination and ends with the return of the Taliban, leaving dreams hanging in uncertainty. By starting here, we remind ourselves that cinema can bear witness where voices are silenced.
The theme of cinema and women runs throughout this year’s program. From 1001 Frames, which exposes the male gaze and reflects the #MeToo movement, to The Vanishing Point, a poetic collage that celebrates the documentation of women’s voices, hopes, and fears.
Alongside these works, bold, new, surreal visions such as Universal Language will be presented, as well as timeless masterpieces of Iranian cinema such as Salaam Cinema and Where is the friend’s house?. To mark the 130th anniversary of cinema, these films have been curated to reaffirm the enduring power of cinema: to confront injustice, celebrate resilience, preserve memory, and open up new possibilities for imagining the future.
You are cordially invited to immerse yourself in this powerful cinema together with other cinephiles.
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