film screening & discussion
Bambirak

Director: Zamarin Wahdat

Sun, 02.07.2023
6:00 PM - 19:00 ACUDkino

Germany/USA, 2020, 14min, short film 
German with English subtitles 
Director: Zamarin Wahdat

Eight-year-old Kati accompanies her father Faruk to work. Since she speaks better German than her father, she proves to be a capable helper delivering packages. Until an incident occurs in a flower store. 
 
Zamarin Wahdat 

Visual artist and director Zamarin Wahdat was born in 1989 in the Afghan capital Kabul. At the age of two, she fled with her family to Hamburg, where she still lives today. After graduating from high school, she left the Hanseatic city briefly to study at the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex in Brighton. She then completed her master's degree at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in New York and worked as a second cinematographer and translator for Carol Dysinger's Oscar-winning short documentary Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You Are A Girl), which was shot in Afghanistan.  
Finally, in 2020, she won the award for "Best International Short Film" at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival with her directorial debut, the short film Bambirak.
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In order to create more visibility in the German film scene, Wahdat often addresses experiences of flight and everyday racism in her work. She is currently working on a 90-minute feature film, planned as a German-French co-production, based on her personal story and set in Hamburg.