Fatemeh Hassani celebrates his freedom. In Germany. Far from the Taliban and forced marriages, which you criticize as inhumane. Fatemeh Hassani presents the film “Qamar” at the “Kino Asyl” festival. In it, a girl is sold by her father. Her mother tries to save her. “I am very sorry for the girl,” says Fatemeh Hassani. “She doesn’t know what’s going on. But at some point she realizes she’s been sold.”
Fatemeh Hassani has lived in Germany for seven years, trained in tourism and now works in customer service. She fled a forced marriage in her home country. “I came to Germany from Afghanistan because I didn’t want to marry a Taliban. I also didn’t want to accept something that my heart didn’t want.”
Let your girls decide for themselves who to marry!
In the film, the women manage to save the married girl. Fatemeh Hassani was also warned by her mother and initially hid in the mosque. “It’s important to me that all women in Afghanistan help each other and have the courage to open their mouths, say something and act. I know they really don’t have much power. But if they all stick together, then it works. And I have a message to all people who are mentally retarded from hundreds of years ago: please let your girls choose and decide for themselves who they want to marry, and getting divorced is a hundred times better than living with someone for a few years, whoever you want you don’t like , who you don’t want.”
There are also forced marriages in Germany. Even if they are forbidden. Fatemeh Hassani likes to be visible and not have to hide. “My dream is to be an actress because she allows me to play the role that I usually can’t do. But at least then I could play it and feel it, with all my heart. She makes me happy.” belong to no one. Him except himself.
A film about a caged society
Mandana Behdad is art director and multi-artist. You came to Germany three years ago from Iran. “We have no freedom. And in prison it’s ten times worse for women.” Mandana selected and edited the film “Women’s Prison”. Women behind bars are also a symbol for the whole closed society. “Everything I’ve done has been wrong according to the government. Everything. That I’m a woman, a revolutionary, an artist.”
She came to Germany for a trip and stayed. The situation in Iran is too uncertain for them. “I lost everything. My family, my mother, my father, my brothers. All my girlfriends. My money. My studio.”
In the film presented by Mandana Behdad, the guard and the prisoner get to know each other better and better. And it becomes clear that neither of them are free. “I chose this film to ask myself: what is dictatorship and what is freedom?” At the end of the film, the prisoner leaves the prison. The guard must stay.
The films of the “Kino Asyl” festival show strong women. And what can they be if you give them freedom.
