Films by Narges Kalhor

Germany 2024, 82 min
by Narges Kalhor

SHAHID is a political drama and a desperate comedy at the same time. It is about historical heroes, today's criminals and how modern women deal with them. A story by and about migrants in Germany and from afar. SHAHID is a personal film that questions all kinds of radical ideologies – and doesn't always take itself too seriously.

Germany 2023, 9 min
by Narges Kalhor

People in Iran document every second of their struggle against the Iranian regime. They take great risks, pulling out their phones and pressing the record button, so that the world may open its eyes and never forget or ignore their plight. The regime deliberately targets the eyes of these witnesses. Many people have lost one or both of their eyes, and some have even lost their lives, just like Shirin Alizadeh.Yet, despite the dangers, the videos of these witnesses are still shared on the interne

2022, 21 min
by Quynh Le Nguyen, Katharina Teresa Soon-Hi Thaler, Stella Deborah Traub

What does it mean to be your parents' daughter? - Being the protagonists of their own film, three filmmakers ask themselves this particular question.The setup: one camera, three settings and three encounters with at least one parent, discussing something so essential, it can hardly be put into words: at times brutally honest, at times lost for words, their encounter will show the difference in each child-parent experience as well as its impact on the individual.The artificial setting is opening

2019, 8 min
by Daniel Asadi Faezi

The dried tears of Lake Urmia in northern Iran are for sale – salt in plastic bags at the roadside. Once the biggest lake in the Middle East, only a fraction of it is left today. This is its elegy, presenting both its former splendour and its state today. Wavering between factuality and melancholy, the film finally opts for a pessimistic view of society. The dying lake becomes a symbol. (DOK Leipzig, Carolin Weidner)Jury Statement Innsbruck Nature FF:“A love poem, a love song to a place that dis

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