BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS (Reihe: FILM & PROTEST)

In the organizer's words:

ROU/HRV 2023, Documentary, 68 min

Director: Vlad Petri

Language: OmeU (Farsi, Romanian with English subtitles)

Content Notes: 5, 1

In the 1970s, Zahra from Iran and Maria from Romania study together in Bucharest. The two have a close bond. When dissident protests break out in Iran, Zahra returns there. The two stayed in touch in letters for years. In their letters, they describe the struggles of women in their countries, who are moving in different directions in parallel revolutions.

In rare archive footage, the film links the history of two politically and culturally different countries and expands it with fictionalized letters from women based on documents from the Romanian secret police. The result is an intimate story of desire and rebellion against patriarchal structures in the midst of revolutionary upheaval.

Followed by a discussion with Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Professor of English and American Literature and Culture with a focus on Postcolonial Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

ENG: An intimate and political documentary that weaves together the history of two countries rarely united, and the lives of two women resisting oppressive regimes and challenging patriarchal societies through the power of their desire.
By juxtaposing unusual archive images from two distant political and cultural contexts, the film brings us closer to exciting moments of courage and fear, hope and disappointment that accompany revolutions, and places Eastern Europe and the Middle East at the center of the great events that marked the 20th century. (Farsi and Romanian with English subtitles)

After the screening, there will be a talk with Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Professor of English and American Literature and Culture with a Focus on Postcolonial Studies at the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Price information:

- 7.50 € (regular) - 6.00 € (reduced*) - 3.50 € (with Leipzig Pass, disabled pass, volunteer pass) - Films longer than 130 min: + 1.00 € - Tickets are available online (plus 0.70 € booking fee), remaining tickets at the Box Office.