Films by Johannes Rothenaicher

Germany 2013
by Narges Kalhor, Benedikt Schwarzer

The Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor, daughter of a former advisor of Ahmadinejad's, is living in exile in Germany for four years. When she hears about the fellow Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi, who is living himself in exile in Germany, faces death threats and has to hide because of one of his songs, she doesn't hesitate and has to find him. On her search she encounters fear everywhere. Narges Kalhor herself has to face her inconvenient memories of suppression, hatred and anger of the past in Iran