Once a month, the Goethe-Institut collaborates with the Cinémathèque québécoise to present a significant work of contemporary German cinema: fiction films, documentaries, bold and entertaining productions by established and emerging filmmakers.
From the filmmaker who previously directed In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran, the wild and crazy feature film Shahid is a political drama and a desperate comedy at the same time. It is about historical heroes, today’s criminals and how modern women deal with it. Shahid is a personal film that questions all kinds of radical ideologies and doesn’t always take itself too seriously.
Narges Kalhor
Narges Kalhor is an Iranian film director. She is the daughter of Mehdi Kalhor, the former media and cultural advisor to President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She studied Film at the Beh-Andish College in Teheran and has produced films critical of the Iranian government. In October 2009, while visiting Germany to present her short film Die Egge at the Nuremberg Film Festival, Kalhor applied for political asylum in Germany, claiming to have received warnings that she could be in danger if she returns to Iran because of her critical stance on her country. She actively participated in the 2009 Iranian election protests. Together with Benedikt Schwarzer, she co-directed the short documentary Shoot Me, which is nominated for the German Short Film Award in 2014. After her first feature-length documentary, In The Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden In Tehran (2019), she released her first feature film, Shahid, in 2024.
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