CULTUER AND ART
German filmaker: You are in charge of your life
German filmaker: You are in charge of your life
Tehran (ISNA) - Iran’s 16th Resistance International Film Festival has held an interview with Anna Faroqhi which her short documentary “A Mask For Everyone” has been selected to the Health Defenders section of the event.
Faroqhi is an author of essay films and graphic novels. Her work has been presented on festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Faroqhi’s main subjects are labor, migration and lifelong learning. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
The excerpt of the interview is as follows:
Question: Please tell us about your film. How and why you made it?
Answer: We initially wanted to make a film about environmentally friendly building and planning, together with a group of refugees in a youth project by FILM WITHOUT BORDER Festival. Then the coronavirus lockdown surprised us all and we were not allowed to visit locations or meet participants. Luck and good contacts to locals led us to another, very special place: the Peace Village in the small Brandenburg village of Storkow. Initiated in the 1990s and with the aim to protect young people from unemployment and right-wing extremism, it is now a shelter and home for refugees, the elderly and the socially weak.
We were given the privilege to film there. You can see refugees and Germans sewing face masks alongside each other. The cliché of refugees as victims is broken. Here, they are shown as people who are able to give to society.
Q: Which fact was the primary motivation for you to make a film related to the Coronavirus pandemic and doctors' and nurses' efforts as pioneers in defending people's health?
German filmaker: You are in charge of your life
Tehran (ISNA) - Iran’s 16th Resistance International Film Festival has held an interview with Anna Faroqhi which her short documentary “A Mask For Everyone” has been selected to the Health Defenders section of the event.
Faroqhi is an author of essay films and graphic novels. Her work has been presented on festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Faroqhi’s main subjects are labor, migration and lifelong learning. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
The excerpt of the interview is as follows:
Question: Please tell us about your film. How and why you made it?
Answer: We initially wanted to make a film about environmentally friendly building and planning, together with a group of refugees in a youth project by FILM WITHOUT BORDER Festival. Then the coronavirus lockdown surprised us all and we were not allowed to visit locations or meet participants. Luck and good contacts to locals led us to another, very special place: the Peace Village in the small Brandenburg village of Storkow. Initiated in the 1990s and with the aim to protect young people from unemployment and right-wing extremism, it is now a shelter and home for refugees, the elderly and the socially weak.
We were given the privilege to film there. You can see refugees and Germans sewing face masks alongside each other. The cliché of refugees as victims is broken. Here, they are shown as people who are able to give to society.
Q: Which fact was the primary motivation for you to make a film related to the Coronavirus pandemic and doctors' and nurses' efforts as pioneers in defending people's health?
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