KAMAY

Afghanistan, Belgium, Germany, France | 2024 | 106 min | Col.

A Hazari family – i.e., an ethnic group staunchly persecuted in  Afghanistan – demands justice for the suspicious death of one of their daughters. This story exceeds its singularity and acquires a wider meaning from the beginning. According to north-American philosopher Judith Butler in her Precarious Life, “Many people think that grief is privatizing, that it returns us to a solitary situation and is, in that sense, depoliticizing. But I think it furnishes a sense of political community of a complex order” - a paradigm which confers strength on this film. Zahra’s story unravels like a quiet lament, interweaving the thin threads of mourning and its processing, while Freshta, the victim’s sister, guides us during the long journey to Kaboul, throughout the folds of an inner and outer landscape. Frame after frame, personal grief turns into a silent and relentless resistance, echoing the fight of an entire people against injustice and forgetfulness. (t.p.)

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  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: 05 Nov 2024
  • Time: 9:00

Location

Cinema La Compagnia
Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Shahrokh bikaran, ilyas yourish

Organizer

Shahrokh bikaran, ilyas yourish

Shahrokh Bikaran is a filmmaker, composer and sound designer from Afghanistan. He co-directed his debut feature documentary Kamay which premiered at Visions du Réel. | Ilyas Yourish founded Kamay Film in Afghanistan in 2018 with the goal of developing and producing films centered on themes like identity, trauma, history, and memory, particularly focusing on his homeland and its people. In 2021 he was forced into exile to Belgium, where he has since lived and worked.

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