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Original name: Shahid
English name: Shahid
Year: 2024
Run time: 84 minutes
Language: German, Farsi, English
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Germany
Director: Narges Kalhor
Producer: Michael Kalb
Cast: Baharak Abdolifard, Nima Nazarinia, Narges Kalhor, Thomas Sprekelsen, Carine Huber
Screenplay: Narges Kalhor, Aydin Alinejad
Cinematographer: Felix Pflieger
Editor: Frank Müller, Narges Kalhor
Sound Designer: Philip Hutter
Music Composer: Marja Burchard
Costume Designer: Künstlerin aus dem Iran
Production Designer: Ann-Kristin Büttner
Production Company: Michael Kalb Filmproduktion
World Sales: Filmotor
Born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran, Narges Kalhor studied directing and visual communication. In 2009, she applied for political asylum in Germany while in the country for a festival. Her graduation film In the Name of Scheherazade premiered at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon and was awarded the Goethe Institut’s prize for best documentary film at DOK Leipzig.
Director Narges Shahid Kalhor no longer wants to be called “Shahid” (martyr) as her surname and casts an actress as herself, who is supposed to set about changing the family name. All of a sudden, her bizarre great-grandfather appears. A man who was declared a martyr in Iran after his heroic death a hundred years ago and thus bequeathed to his descendants the honorific “Shahid”. He seeks to prevent his great-granddaughter from going through with her plan.
