Afghanistan, I 2024, R: Farid Rahimi, 75 Min, English/German - Anschließend Diskussion mit dem Regisseur und weiteren Gästen

AFGHANISTAN
 
Farid Rahimi's project AFGHANISTAN will bring together the many voices and images from a journey in search of "testimonies" from Afghanistan around the world.

It is a long journey in stages: it covers great distances, not only physical but also interior and emotional. It starts from the artist's need (born in Switzerland, but living and raised in Italy) to confront a fragmented identity between his belonging to a country he has never visited - Afghanistan - and the dislocation of his family ties in places far from Italy and distant from each other.
 
A reflection that originates from the biographical and particular case of the artist, in order to investigate the universal concept of diaspora, through interviews, testimonies and research conducted in more than three months of travelling and filming, which will give back the final video installation of the work AFGHANISTAN, curated by Luca Cerizza, produced by Centro Itard and realised thanks to the support of the Italian Council 12 ed., Italian Culture Ministry, The Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity.
 
«We will talk about Afghanistan, but without ever really going there. We will evoke these places from the direct voice of those who have been there, from those who have lived there, through anecdotes, memories, dramatic tales of war...» - Farid Rahimi