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Helin Çelik | Austria, Spain 2023 | 91 min. | Arabic with English subtitles
SATURDAY, 18.05. | 7 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
In presence of Helin Çelik
Grains of dust dance in the sunlight, the fan slowly turns on its axis, the flame of the gas cooker flickers as the coffee starts to boil. It is as if the inhabitants are trapped in a timeless darkness of their silent memories. In the protected space of their homes, three Jordanian women recount the traumatic experiences of violence they have endured. In fragmented narratives, they speak of rape and torture, assault and imprisonment. Much remains hidden to protect the women.
In haunting visual poetry, Helin Çelik takes us into the lives of women who are visibly marked by the suffering they have experienced but who refuse to let themselves be defined by it: “I am not what is left, I exist.”
Director: Helin Çelik
Cinematography: Raquel Fernández Núñez AEC
Editing: Sara Fattahi
Sound: Nicolás Tsabertidis
Production: Kepler Mission Films S.L.
SCREENINGS AND AWARDS
Kassel Dokumentarfilm & Videofestival 2023
Duisburg – Duisburger Filmwoche 2023 (ARTE Dokumentarfilmpreis)
Porto – Post Porto Doc 2023
Gijon – International Film Festival 2023
Oslo – MIRAGE Film Festival for the Art of the Real 2023 (Beste Kamera)
Viennale – Vienna Int. Film Festival 2023
Sibiu – Astra Documentary Film Festival 2023
Skopje – Int’l Cinematographers’ FF Manaki Brothers 2023
Istanbul International Film Festival 2023
Berlin – Intern. Filmfestspiele Berlinale – Forum 2023
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.
