Shahid

Germany | 2023
Director: Narges Kalhor
Genre: Biography, Musical, Drama, Documentary
Language: German with english subtitles
Running time: 86 minutes
Age rating: PG-12

A wildly clever film that’s part reality, part fiction, part theatre and part musical. Director Narges Shahid Kalhor directs an actor playing a version of herself. She doesn’t want to be called "Shahid" (martyr) anymore and is determined to change her name. Then, her heroic great-grandfather turns up – given the title of martyr 100 years ago in Iran – from whom his descendants inherited the name. He wants to dissuade his great-granddaughter, and shadows her in her quest along with his dancing friends. The Bavarian district administration sends her to a psychologist, who also has a difficult name…