Society

Café der Freiheit

Oliver Kobold, Tara Paighambari / German / 2024 / 224 Pages

In Café of Freedom, Tara Paighambari takes us on a moving journey. As a five-year-old, she flees Iran with her family and finds a new home in Berlin. Despite facing major challenges, she manages to build a successful life. Her story is a tribute to the human spirit and shows how something great can emerge from difficult beginnings. It is a story of love, loss, and the unwavering desire to take control of one’s life.

Tickets

D'Salon
12 Oct
6.30 PM
Festival Center D'24
OmeU

Credits

Year 2024
Language German
Pages 224
ISBN 978-3-8270-1514-3
Authors Oliver Kobold, Tara Paighambari

Program Info

Conversation

Guests

Tara Paighambari

Born in Tehran in 1990, Tara Paighambari came to Berlin when she was five. She studied molecular biology, worked as a management consultant and now runs her own café and start-up. She lives in Berlin with her family.

Silvia Albarella

Silvia Albarella is an artist as well as set and costume designer. She has lived in Berlin since 1996, where she works as an artist as well as stage and costume designer for both her own productions and other artists and theatres. The focus of her work lies at the interface between theatre, film, performance and, most recently, virtual reality. She has been working in the film business since 2003.

Clara Stella Hüneke

Clara Stella Hüneke studied video art and made her bachelor's documentary 'Parko' in Athens in 2015, about a squatted car park. She worked as a junior producer at Vice until she started studying directing at the Film Academy in 2018. Her animated film 'Auf bald, deine Clara' was screened at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and many other festivals. Sisterqueens' is her graduation film and the opening film of the documentary section.
Gollaleh Ahmadi

Gollaleh Ahmadi

Gollaleh Ahmadi was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives on 26 September 2021 on the state list of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, with a focus on domestic and media policy; she is originally from Iran and, after fleeing to Germany with her family, has been involved in voluntary work in the areas of human rights, education and justice.

Moderation

Jana Sepehr

Jana Sepehr was born in Hamburg and studied sociology, political science, globalisation and development studies in Kiel, Maastricht and San Diego. For her master thesis she spent two month at the University of Ghana to do research on brain drain migration. Since 2015 she is working as a freelance journalist for Die Zeit, Der Spiegel and ZDF among others. At Dokumentale, she serves as the chief-editor for publications.
Filmstill "Sisterqueens"

Film

Sisterqueens

10. Oct / 19:30 / Colosseum Filmtheater
12. Oct / 18:30 / Festival Center D'24
13. Oct / 20:30 / City Kino Wedding
The three friends Jamila, Rachel, and Faseeha are part of Sisterqueens, a Berlin-based rap collective. They challenge social norms, rap about feminism, discrimination, and self-determination, and help each other to forge their own paths.

Film

We Iranian Women

11. Oct / 19:00 / Sputnik Kino
14. Oct / 19:00 / Sputnik Kino
This film showcases courageous Iranian women risking their lives to fight economic crises, corruption, and the patriarchy. Prominent women from the fields of culture, art, and science share their stories of being forced to leave their beloved country.

Virtual Experience

Draw for Change

10. Oct / 10:00 / Festival Center D'24
This virtual reality experience will take you into Maremoto’s world, showing how the young Mexican caricaturist works. With her art, Maremoto fights for equal rights, empowers other women, and criticizes patriarchal structures.

Tickets

D'Salon
12 Oct
6.30 PM
Festival Center D'24
OmeU
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