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All Day Together by Marcin Koszalka
Kiana Firouz, 27 years old, is an outspoken Iranian LGBT rights activist, filmmaker, and actress. When clips of her video documentary work featuring the struggle and persecution of gays and lesbians in her country were acquired by Iranian intelligence, agents began to follow Firouz around Tehran, harassing and intimidating her. She fled form England where she could safely continue her work and studies.
She plays a starring role in Cul de Sac, a documentary film produced in the UK about the condition of lesbians in Iran, and based heavily on Firouz’s own life story. Directed by Ramin Goudarzi-Nejad and Mahshad Torkan, the movie will premiere in London in a few days. Some members of Ahmadinejad’s puppet media in Iran viewed the first trailer o youtube. They want her to come back to the country she was born in to answer for it.
In Iran, the punishment for lesbianism involving mature consenting women consists of 100 lashes. This punishment can be applied up to three times. After a fourth violation of Iranian law, a woman convicted of “unrepentant homosexuality” is finally executed by hanging, often publicly, in front of a howling mob.
http://www.petitiononline.com/kianaf/petition.html
We cordially invite producers from the Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and/or Germany to apply to the 6th International DOK Leipzig Co-Production Meeting. In addition, we will again be welcoming colleagues from Middle and Eastern Europe, who will be coming to Leipzig from the Workshops Ex Oriente Film (Czech Republic) and Dragon Forum (Poland) with innovative film ideas. Also we will be welcoming six producers from Chile/Argentina. The main focus of the Co-Production Meeting is to encourage international co-productions and offer alternative financing apart from pure financing by television.
Jafar Panahi
Beginning of March, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi had
been arrested by the police of his country. Over two months later, he's
still in prison.
The International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI, a non-profit,
apolitical organization consisting of members from 68 countries
worldwide, strongly protests the arrest and unjust confinement of
filmmaker Jafar Panahi. In the collective view of FIPRESCI, Panahi is
not only an outstanding filmmaker – he has merited the FIPRESCI Award at
the 2000 Venice Film Festival and also received our "Grand Prix – Best
Film of the Year" for "The Circle / Dayereh" – he is also, in our
opinion, an honorable person and has earned the warmest respect from
cinephiles and humanists alike from all over the world. What he is not,
in our view, is a criminal. He can and should not be denied of freedom
for his political opinion. We regard his imprisonment as a crime against
both democracy as well as the most basic of human rights.
Munich,
May 9, 2010
From 21 to 25 April Doc Alliance Selection 2009 will be available for FREE streaming.
Maggie
in Wonderland by Ester Martin Bergsmark, Beatrice "Maggie"
Andersson und Mark Hammarberg (Sweden, Finland 2008, 72 min)
Maggie,
a young woman from Kenya, films her world in the Swedish city of
Malmö. A creative portrayal of the meaning of social isolation.
WINNER OF DOC ALLIANCE AWARD 2009
