............................................................................................................................Gender and Society in Cinema
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PROGRAMME.....FILMS A-Z .....DIRECTORS ..... VENUES.....CREDITS + IMPRINT.

Artistic direction:
Sandra Schäfer, Elfe Brandenburger

Artistic Programming:
Elfe Brandenburger, Diana Saqeb, Sandra Schäfer, Malek Shafi'i, Zara Zandieh

Production Management:
DepArtment / Harriet Lesch

Print Coordination:
Tanja C. Horstmann

Editorial:
Harriet Lesch, Diana Saqeb, Sandra Schäfer, Malek Shafi'i, Zara Zandieh

Translations:
Karl Hoffmann, Mohammad Ali Karimi

Produced by mazefilm in co-operation with CACA-Kabul www.cacakabul.org

Curators

Sandra Schäfer (Berlin)
The filmmaker and curator of film programmes lives and works in Berlin. She studied art, politics and sociology in Kassel, London and Karlsruhe. She has made repeated visits to Kabul and Tehran since 2007 to work together with Elfe Brandenburger on the documentary film Passing the Rainbow and do research for the film festival Kabul/Teheran: 1979ff. She curated film series on Afghanistan and Tehran in Belfast, Lüneburg, Karlsruhe, and Berlin, and is co-editor of the book Kabul/ Teheran 1979ff: Filmlandschaften, Städte unter Stress und Migration, published in 2006 by b_books, Berlin. Videos, films and video installations (choice): The Making of a Demonstration (2004), A Country's new Dawn (2001) and The invisible Services (2000).

Elfe Brandenburger (Berlin)
The filmmaker participated in the artists' group minimal club, which produced theatre and video projects as well as books and magazines. Since 1985, she has also been working as a film editor. Her video works, which were in part produced in cooperation projects with Mano Wittmann, were shown at various venues and in different contexts. She co-directed Passing the Rainbow which evolved out of the collaboration with Sandra Schäfer on the short film The Making of a Demonstration.
The SPLICE IN film programme evolved out of the collaboration of Sandra Schäfer and Elfe Brandenburger on the film Passing the Rainbow

Diana Saqeb (Kabul)
The young Afghan filmmaker spent 26 years of her life in Tehran and has now been living in Kabul again for a year. She is a member of the artists' group CACA-Kabul. She had previously completed her studies to become a film director at the art academy in Tehran.
Her first documentary film 25 Darsad ("25 Percent") deals with five female members of parliament and their difficulties and efforts in everyday life.

Malek Shafi'i (Kabul)
Born in 1974, Shafi'i has been making documentary films in and outside of Afghanistan for the last 8 years. He completed his education at Baagh Ferdaws Islamic Filmmaking Center in 1999 in Iran, and additionally attended a film production course in the Netherlands.
Coming back to Afghanistan after 20 years of exile, it is five years he has been living in Kabul, where he launched the Center of Art and Culture of Afghanistan (CACA-KABUL). He also worked as a senior advisor for the Radio Television Afghanistan.
He has made about 30 films; some of them received international film awards from different countries. Up to the parliament (2005), Drought in Hazarajat (2003), Pamir Territory (2003), End of the Earth (2001) are the filmmaker's most renowned works.

Zara Zandieh (Berlin)
Zara Zandieh works as a video artist and filmmaker in Berlin. She was involved in various art-projects questioning issues of feminism and gender, migration, racism, and postcolonialism in Germany.
She has been living in London for two years and finished her MA in Gender, Ethnic Studies and Sexualities at the University of East London in 2006. Her recent films are: close-distance (2006), Such a strange time it is, my dear… (2007), Meine Geschwister und Ich. ("My Siblings and Me"; 2008)
In her work she traces ties between people and their (hi)stories by focusing aspects of memory and history, inclusion and exclusion, space and belonging.

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funded by: The German Federal Cultural Foundation

supported by:
Mama-Cash, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, GTZ, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, DED, Heinrich Boell Foundation;

in cooperation with:
Afghan Films, French Cultural Center, Goethe-Institute Kabul, Armanshahr; Donya-ye zan, Mosharekat-e siassi;