Narges Kalhor

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Narges Kalhor (born September 10, 1984 in Tehran , Iran ) is an Iranian film director , video artist and film editor living in Germany .

Life

Kalhor is the daughter of Mehdi Kalhor , a media and cultural advisor to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . From 2002 she studied film at the Beh-andish College in Tehran . In 2006 she began studying graphics, which she completed with a BA in 2008. Since 2004, parallel to her studies, she has been working as an editor at the ARASB advertising and film production agency in Tehran. In 2009 she took an active part in the protests after the Iranian presidential elections , and in her films she criticized the Iranian government.

At the International Film Festival of Human Rights Nuremberg (NIHRFF) Kalhor showed her film Darkhish ( The Egge ) in the special Iran series in October 2009 . Immediately after the screening, she was warned that she would no longer be safe if she returned to Iran due to her critical stance and was forced to apply for asylum in Germany . She is now recognized as a person entitled to asylum.

Kalhor studied directing from 2010 to 2019 at the University of Television and Film Munich in the department for documentary film and television journalism. The documentary SHOOT ME was co-directed with Benedikt Schwarzer and was nominated for the German Short Film Award and the German Human Rights Film Award 2014. Her graduation film In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran celebrated its world premiere at Vision du Réel 2019, received the Goethe Institute's Documentary Film Prize at DOK Leipzig and was released in Swiss cinemas in early 2020.

Filmography

Iran

  • 2001: Without Discussion
  • 2002: Illusions of a Persian Cat
  • 2007: Enlightenment of a Hen
  • 2007: We Must Have Died
  • 2008: Darkhish (The Egge)
  • 2008: Hair
  • 2009: After Green
  • 2009: Bijan And Manigeh In Tehran

Germany

  • 2011: Munich-Tehran
  • 2013: SHOOT ME (documentary)
  • 2014: Kafan
  • 2014: Lavashak
  • 2016: G sharp (experimental feature film)
  • 2019: In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran

Awards

  • 2019: Bavarian Culture Prize (Science Prize)
  • 2020: Starter Film Award from the City of Munich for "In the name of Scheherazade or the first beer garden in Tehran"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guest list NIHRFF 2009
  2. ^ Daughter of Ahmadinejad adviser fears Iran , on Welt.de, from October 14, 2009
  3. ↑ A Question of Hope , on faz.net, December 16, 2009
  4. ↑ The Minister of State for Culture and Media Grütters awards the nominations for the German Short Film Award 2014 , Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, from October 23, 2014
  5. ↑ Shoot Me - Filmdetail - HFF Munich. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  6. ^ In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  7. ^ Documentary Film Prize - Goethe Institute. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Cinelibre. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ SHOOT ME website ( memento of the original from March 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.shootme-film.de
  10. ↑ Website of the production company wirFILM ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wir.wirfilm.de
personal data
SURNAME Kalhor, Narges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian film director and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran