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SENSITIVE CONTENT

Narges Kalhor
Iran, Germany, 2023
8 min.

After the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, massive women’s rights and anti-authoritarian protests erupted across Iran, which were violently suppressed by the regime in Teheran. Using social media sensitivity filters as a central metaphor, Sensitive Content explores how one witnesses and documents both historical events and dissent in the modern age.

The flashing icon of an eye – either open, or looking around, blinking, and ultimately slit in half, as if in a discreet nod to Un chien andalou – is the central visual motif of Sensitive Content: a concise and efficient exploration of the regimes of visibility concerning the recent anti-government protests in Iran. The film examines these amateur images, these unofficial narratives (because, in the end, the official one does not want these images to be seen), thus exploring the position of one who bears witness. Over the past decade, it is precisely this kind of heroic images, caught on the run (literally), from the window of a car or from the stationary point of the apartment window, that has become the predominant way in which we see protests from around the globe. (Flavia Dima)

Data proiecție și locație

Thursday, 28th of September | 18:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Premii și festivaluri

Narges Kalhor

Narges Kalhor was born and raised in Tehran. After graduating from high school in 2001, she began to study filmmaking at Tehran Film School. In 2007, she continued her studies with a visual communication degree at Kamalolmolk University. At the same time, she worked as a film editor at the advertising film agency ARASB in Tehran and shot 5 short films. Her film In the Name of Scheherazade premiered at Vision Du Réel and was awarded a prize for the best documentary at the DOK Leipzig Film Festival. In 2019, Narges received the Kulturpreis Bayern and in 2020 the Starter-Filmpreis from the city of Munich.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • CAMERA: People of Iran
  • SOUND: Philipp Hutter
  • EDITING: Narges Kalhor
  • PRODUCTION: Nicholas Coleman, Oasysdigital GmbH
  • PRODUCED BY: Oasysdigital GmbH

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