HABĀ
Helin Çelik | Austria, Spain 2024 | 23 min. | Arabic with engl. subtitles
SUNDAY, 11.05. | 5:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
Part of the Short Film Programm ISA II
‘I know in my heart that something will happen to me,’ Sahar confides to director Helin Çelik before the phone connection abruptly cuts off. Sahar is on the run from her family. With a shaky voice, she testifies to the violence she experienced at the hands of her family that haunts her.
In HABĀ, Helin Çelik contrasts the narratives’ narrowness and severity with the vastness of the Jordanian landscape filmed in monochrome black and white. Interwoven with excerpts from the Egyptian feature film Doa al Karawan, which tells of femicides disguised as ‘honor killings’, the filmmaker reconstructs Sahar’s escape route.
Director: Helin Çelik
Camera: Raquel Fernández Núñez
Editing: Sara Fatahi
Sound: Nicolas Tsabertidis
Production: Helin Çelik, Rebeca Sánchez López / MissionKeplerFilms
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Viennale 2024
NY Docs Forthnight, 2025
Diagonale 2025
BIOGRAPHY
Helin Çelik is a Kurdish interdisciplinary artist who is based in Vienna, Austria. In her works, she investigates different geographies of political struggle and reconstructs existing narratives by interweaving narrative and nonfiction instruments. She strives to unpack the relationship between political and cinematographic memory by blending personal history and using new visual grammars and intends to diversify the possibilities of media-making for imagining another future.
