OPENING CEREMONY

25 DARSAD / 25 Percent
Director: Diana Saqeb
Camera: Malek Shafi'i
Production: CACA-Kabul
Afghanistan 2007;
35 ';
Dari/ with English subtitles

Followed by: Talk with Diana Saqeb

DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE / Talaq be Sabk-e Irani
Director: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Iran/Great Britain 1998
80'
Farsi/with English subtitles

ZANAN VA SINEMA / Women and Cinema
Director: Amina Jafari
Camera: Parwin Ayubi
Afghanistan 2004
20'
Dari/with English subtitles

Followed by: Talk with Amina Jafari

SAYEH / Shadow
Director: Nacir Alqas
Script: Siddiq Barmak (on a novel by Jalal Al Ahmad)
Actor: Yasemin Yarmal
Afghanistan 1990
23'
Dari/with English hand-outs

TALABGAR / The Marriage Candidate / Der Heiratskandidat
Director: Khaleq A'lil
Actors: Khanaqa Sorur, Ghazal Ebrahimi, Rafiq Sadek, Habiba Askar
Afghanistan 1969
40'
Dari/with English subtitles

EDAME RAH / The Path to follow / Fortsetzung des Weges
Director: Nazifa Zakizada
Afghanistan 2006
11'
Dari/with English subtitles

Followed by: Talk with Nazifa Zakizada

NEJAT / Rescue
Director: Saba Sahar
Camera, Editing: Emal Zaki
Production: Saba Film
Afghanistan 2007
90 '
Dari/with English subtitles

Followed by: Talk with Saba Sahar

RUSHANY / Lightness
Director: Ingenieur Latif Ahmadi
Afghanistan 2004
20'
Dari/with English subtitles

Followed by: Talk with Latif Ahmadi

SE NOQTA / Three Dots
Script, Director: Roya Sadat
Camera: Masoom Qismat, Sayed Fahim Hashimy
Editor: Sayed Fahim Hashimy
Sound: Shoiaib Sahil
Production: Roya Cinematic House Production
Afghanistan 2004
51'
Dari/with English subtitles

Followed by: Talk with Roya Sadat

RUZEGAR-E MA / Our Times
Director: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Iran 2002;
75 '
Farsi/ with English subtitles

Followed by: Talk with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad

NIIN LÄKELLÄ, NIIN KAUKANA / Na kheili door, wa na nadzik / Not far, not near
Script, director, camera, editing: Shakiba Adil
Finland 2007
17 '
Dari/with English subtitles

Followed by: Talk with Shakiba Adil

POSTCARDS FROM TORA BORA / Postcard-ha az Tora Bora
Script: Wazhmah Osman
Director: Kelly Dolak, Wazhmah Osman
Camera: Kelly Dolak
Editor: Stephen Jablonsky
USA 2007
85'
Dari, Paschtu/Dari voice-over

Followed by: Talk with Wazhmah Osman

LA PROMESSE / Qawl / The Promise
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Script: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Léon Michaux, Alphonso Badolo
Camera: Alain Marcoen, Benoît Dervaux
Music: Jean-Marie Billy, Denis M'Punga
Editing: Marie-Hélène Dozo
Belgium 1996
93'
French/with English subtitles/Dari voice-over

Iranian 1960s Documentary styles
In 1960s Iran, numerous documentary films commissioned by the state were produced. Young filmmakers grasped the opportunity to produce auteur films that often extended into the realm of fiction. Kamran Shirdel's trilogy, for example, was commissioned by the state-run women's organization of the Shah's sister, Ashraf, and was meant to advertise for its rehabilitation and education program. Due to the social-critical montage of Tehran, Paytakht-e Iran, he was ultimately refused access to the editing suite. He was only able to complete his trilogy in the 1980s. For many, the film Khaneh siah ast counts as the beginning of a new Iranian cinema on account of the special mixture of documentary and fictional scenes, the camera work and the editing technique, as well as its social content. It was directed by the famous poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who is known throughout the world for her modern style of writing. She breaks with the strict conventions of Iranian poetry by addressing individual desires in an open and direct manner.

KHANEH SIAH AST / The House is black
Director, script, editing: Forugh Farrokhzad
Camera: Soleiman Minassian
Iran 1962
22 '
Farsi/with French subtitles/ English voice-over

NEDAMATGAH / Women's Prison
Script, director: Kamran Shirdel
Camera: Mazyar Partow
Editing: Kamran Shirdel, Kazem Raji'Nia
IR 1965
12'
Farsi/with English subtitles

TEHRAN, PAYTAKHT-E IRAN / Tehran, Capital of Iran
Script, director: Kamran Shirdel
Camera: Kamran Shirdel, Mansoor Yazdi
Editing: Kamran Shirdel, Kazem Raji'Nia
IR 1966
18'
Farsi/with English subtitles

QAL'EH / Women's Quarter
Script, director: Kamran Shirdel
Camera: Kamran Shirdel, Mansoor Yazdi
Editing: Kamran Shirdel
IR 1966,
18'
Farsi/with English subtitles

PASSING THE RAINBOW / Gozar az zir-e Kaman-e Rostam
Director, Camera, Editor: Elfe Brandenburger, Sandra Schäfer
Germany 2007
71'
Dari/with English subtitles

Followed by: Talk with Elfe Brandenburger and Sandra Schäfer