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Café der Freiheit

Oliver Kobold, Tara Paighambari / German / 2024 / 224 Pages

In Café of Freedom, Tara Paighambari takes us on a moving journey. As a five-year-old, she flees Iran with her family and finds a new home in Berlin. Despite facing major challenges, she manages to build a successful life. Her story is a tribute to the human spirit and shows how something great can emerge from difficult beginnings. It is a story of love, loss, and the unwavering desire to take control of one’s life.

Tickets

D'Salon
12 Oct
6.30 PM
Festival Center D'24
OmeU

Credits

Year 2024
Language German
Pages 224
ISBN 978-3-8270-1514-3
Authors Oliver Kobold, Tara Paighambari

Program Info

Conversation

Guests

Tara Paighambari

Born in Tehran in 1990, Tara Paighambari came to Berlin when she was five. She studied molecular biology, worked as a management consultant and now runs her own café and start-up. She lives in Berlin with her family.

Silvia Albarella

Silvia Albarella is an artist as well as set and costume designer. She has lived in Berlin since 1996, where she works as an artist as well as stage and costume designer for both her own productions and other artists and theatres. The focus of her work lies at the interface between theatre, film, performance and, most recently, virtual reality. She has been working in the film business since 2003.

Clara Stella Hüneke

Clara Stella Hüneke studied video art and made her bachelor's documentary 'Parko' in Athens in 2015, about a squatted car park. She worked as a junior producer at Vice until she started studying directing at the Film Academy in 2018. Her animated film 'Auf bald, deine Clara' was screened at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and many other festivals. Sisterqueens' is her graduation film and the opening film of the documentary section.

Gollaleh Ahmadi

Gollaleh Ahmadi is a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and spokesperson for security and media affairs of the Greens parliamentary group. Her political work focuses on societal resilience, cybersecurity, disinformation, and the protection of democratic institutions. Born in Iran, she fled to Germany as a teenager and has followed developments in her home country for many years from a deeply personal perspective.

Moderation

Jana Sepehr

Jana Sepehr studied sociology, globalization and (development) policy in Kiel, Maastricht and San Diego. She has been a freelance journalist since 2015 for Die Zeit, Der Spiegel and ZDF among others. At Doxumentale, she is in charge of the communications and marketing department.
Filmstill "Sisterqueens"

Film

Sisterqueens

10. Oct / 19:30 / Filmtheater Colosseum
12. Oct / 18:30 / Festival Center D'24
13. Oct / 20:30 / City Kino Wedding
The three friends Jamila, Rachel, and Faseeha are part of Sisterqueens, a Berlin-based rap collective. They challenge social norms, rap about feminism, discrimination, and self-determination, and help each other to forge their own paths.

Film

We Iranian Women

11. Oct / 19:00 / Sputnik Kino
14. Oct / 19:00 / Sputnik Kino
This film showcases courageous Iranian women risking their lives to fight economic crises, corruption, and the patriarchy. Prominent women from the fields of culture, art, and science share their stories of being forced to leave their beloved country.

VR + Games

Draw for Change

10. Oct / 10:00 / Festival Center D'24
This virtual reality experience will take you into Maremoto’s world, showing how the young Mexican caricaturist works. With her art, Maremoto fights for equal rights, empowers other women, and criticizes patriarchal structures.

Tickets

D'Salon
12 Oct
6.30 PM
Festival Center D'24
OmeU
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