Souls Unshackled with film talk

Souls unshackled – Let us be in a hurry to be human

Germany, Iran 2024, 95 min, Persian, German with Germans subtitles, directed by: Roxana Samadi

On September 16, 2022, Jina Mahsa Amini was arrested by the Iranian morality police for wearing her headscarf incorrectly. Three days later, she died in custody. Her death sparked an outcry, including in Germany. Many Iranian women in exile who fled the regime in Iran in the 1970s showed their protest – but also second-generation German-Iranian women such as Jasmin Shakeri, Pegah Ferydoni, Natalie Amiri and Enissa Amani. Together, they took to the streets for freedom in their distant homeland.

SOULS UNSHACKLED shows the tireless struggle of these exiles for the feminist revolution in Iran (2022-2023) with the aim of helping their homeland to freedom from the diaspora. And makes it clear how important the struggle of each and every individual is for a world that thinks and acts freely.

Wed, 16.4. at 8 p.m., with Roxana Samadi (director), Moderator: Andrea Kuhn (NIHRFF)