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7:15 PM
Zuhur's Daughters
Film screening|Goethe-Cinema: Family Affairs
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Université d'Ottawa (Pavillon Hamelin, MHN257), Ottawa
- Language Original version (Arabic, German and English) with English subtitles.
- Price Free, suggested donation: 5 $
- Part of series: Family Affairs
Monthly thematic film series by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa highlighting films from Germany presented at the University of Ottawa (Hamelin Hall, Room MHN257, 70 Av. Laurier East):
Germany | 2021 | 89 mins.
Documentary
Direction: Laurentia Genske, Robin Humboldt
Lohan and Samar are teenagers and transgender. Together with their family, the sisters fled from Syria to Germany. They live in a refugee shelter with their mother Zuhur, father Talib, his second wife Shaharazad and nine younger siblings. In their new home, they find themselves in a constant conflict of cultures. The parents cling to familiar structures from Syria and to a life according to the Koran. Lohan and Samar, on the other hand, are torn between their Muslim community and the Western environment that allows them to express their true selves. Initially only in secret, the two dare to live out their female identity. For three years, the film accompanies them on their forays as well as their transition and search for their own identity. ZUHURS TÖCHTER brings us close to a special family that sticks together despite countless conflicts and hardships.
Zuhur's Daughters
Zuhurs TöchterGermany | 2021 | 89 mins.
Documentary
Direction: Laurentia Genske, Robin Humboldt
Lohan and Samar are teenagers and transgender. Together with their family, the sisters fled from Syria to Germany. They live in a refugee shelter with their mother Zuhur, father Talib, his second wife Shaharazad and nine younger siblings. In their new home, they find themselves in a constant conflict of cultures. The parents cling to familiar structures from Syria and to a life according to the Koran. Lohan and Samar, on the other hand, are torn between their Muslim community and the Western environment that allows them to express their true selves. Initially only in secret, the two dare to live out their female identity. For three years, the film accompanies them on their forays as well as their transition and search for their own identity. ZUHURS TÖCHTER brings us close to a special family that sticks together despite countless conflicts and hardships.
Location
Université d'Ottawa (Pavillon Hamelin, MHN257)
University of Ottawa, Hamelin Hall
70 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa K1N 6N5
Kanada
University of Ottawa, Hamelin Hall
70 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa K1N 6N5
Kanada
Room entrance from second-floor walkway between Hamelin and Simard buildings.