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Documentary<\/div>\n
Work-in-progress<\/div>\n
75 minutes<\/div>\n
Location: Greece, Germany, Iran<\/div>\n
Producer: Amie Williams<\/div>\n
Director: Aora Helmzadeh<\/div>\n
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For years, Aora has been filming her own life. Not as an artistic experience, but as a means of
\nsurvival. Born and raised in Iran, she grew up dreaming of freedom and equality. But when she finally reached
\nEurope, those dreams shattered. A romantic relationship with a German man ends not in salvation, but in a
\nbrutal act of violence: he tries to kill her by stabbing her forty times. Miraculously, she survives. In hospital,
\nAora picks up her camera, and through her lens, starts to explore how to piece herself back together. It takes two
\nyears alone, isolated, experimenting with the camera as a healing tool. Just as she starts to feel better, she receives a
\ncall from German authorities, telling her that her ex-husband had been released from jail. Not offered
\nprotection or counseling, even his family accuses\u00a0her of trapping their son into marriage. She flees from Germany
\nto Greece to rebuild her life and there meets Ahmed, a gentle, loving Palestinian man who joins her in the
\nFree Gaza movement. But their relationship starts to unravel from the pressures of living in an unwelcome
\ncountry. Because of her activism, Aora is deemed a threat to the state and detained by Greek authorities after a peaceful
\ndemonstration. Meanwhile, her mother dies unexpectedly in Tehran, and she makes the decision to return home
\njust as Iran erupts in civil unrest, on the brink of war. Sequestered at home while Tehran is bombed by the US and Israel,<\/div>\n
Aora heads into the streets to do the one thing\u00a0she has learned to do: film and keep fighting.<\/div>\n
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As the war deepens and expands across the Middle East, Aora stands at a personal
\nand political crossroads, caught between an oppressive regime and a brutal, imperialist invader.<\/div>\n
Should she stay in a homeland in crisis or return to Europe, where a decade of struggle there has been
\nmet with exclusion and injustice.\u00a0 Problematic Girl from a Problematic Country is a film that confronts Europe’s cold mechanisms of control, and<\/div>\n
the intersection of gender, migration, and colonial memory. Less partisan, more personal, it plays with the
\nidea that the conflicts of the world are played out on women\u2019s bodies, and in order to survive, we must find a
\nway to fight back.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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