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8:15 PM-10:00 PM
All You See
Filmscreening|Filmscreening
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ACUDkino, Berlin
- Language Dutch with English subtitles
- Price 3€
Directed by Niki Padidar, Netherlands, 2022, 72 min.
What if from one day to the next, you’re no longer seen, but instead are stared at? The leading characters in All You See have ended up in a new world where suddenly nothing seems to align. In their new lives in the Netherlands, they unintentionally provoke reactions on a daily basis. Even after many years, they still hear the same questions over and over again: where are you from, do you speak Dutch, do you tan in the sun?
Contemplating questions of what it means to belong, who gets excluded, and how outsider status is continually reaffirmed, Padidar’s film foregrounds the sensation of being looked at. Honest, painful, and humorous encounters with three other ‘new comers’ to the Netherlands are stylistically interwoven between Padidar’s own personal history, opening up a vulnerable space of articulation with global resonance. A confessional collage with no simple outs, All You See turns the spotlight on all of us, while simultaneously asking: who is “us”?
Niki Padidar is born in Tehran, Iran. She studied photography at the New School University in New York and got her masters at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) specializing in ‘Youth & media’ and ‘Perception. Her debut documentary Ninnoc won 7 international prizes, among others at film festivals like Berlinale and Idfa. Her first feature film, All You See is opening film of the International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA).
What if from one day to the next, you’re no longer seen, but instead are stared at? The leading characters in All You See have ended up in a new world where suddenly nothing seems to align. In their new lives in the Netherlands, they unintentionally provoke reactions on a daily basis. Even after many years, they still hear the same questions over and over again: where are you from, do you speak Dutch, do you tan in the sun?
Contemplating questions of what it means to belong, who gets excluded, and how outsider status is continually reaffirmed, Padidar’s film foregrounds the sensation of being looked at. Honest, painful, and humorous encounters with three other ‘new comers’ to the Netherlands are stylistically interwoven between Padidar’s own personal history, opening up a vulnerable space of articulation with global resonance. A confessional collage with no simple outs, All You See turns the spotlight on all of us, while simultaneously asking: who is “us”?
Niki Padidar is born in Tehran, Iran. She studied photography at the New School University in New York and got her masters at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) specializing in ‘Youth & media’ and ‘Perception. Her debut documentary Ninnoc won 7 international prizes, among others at film festivals like Berlinale and Idfa. Her first feature film, All You See is opening film of the International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA).