In the organizer's words:

Available here: KOMBITICKET FREITAG IM ROTEN SALON: 13 € / reduced 10 € / valid for the two events on Friday, 12.12.: My Stolen Planet (film opening) at 18:30 and Echoes of Uprising (panel) at 20:30

Part of the program of:
3 DAYS TO LIBERATION II
(statement and program)
December 12-14, 2025
Conceived & curated by Maryam Palizban
Presented by CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK

With: Farahnaz Sharifi, Azadeh Akbari, Firoozeh Farvardin
Moderation: Maryam Palizban

Echoes of Uprising continues the movement of the opening film My Stolen Planet - from intimate memory to collective reverberation. Different voices of the feminist revolution in Iran meet and talk about ongoing violence, censorship and the growing number of political executions. Echoes of Uprising - Voices Silenced, Voices Rising becomes a place of witness and conversation about the costs of liberation, the role of art and science in resistance, and how resistance continues under systematic oppression.

Text: Maryam Palizban

Farahnaz Sharifi is a filmmaker, film editor and writer. She studied film at Tehran Soureh University. Her work combines private archive material and collective history to create a poetic form of resistance. Her film My Stolen Planet premiered in the Berlinale Panorama in 2024, screened at over 60 international festivals and received more than 25 awards, including the Golden Alexander (Thessaloniki Documentary Festival) and the Silver Hugo (Chicago International Film Festival).

Azadeh Akbari is Professor of Critical Data & Surveillance Studies at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C³S) at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of digital transformation, digital authoritarianism, data justice and surveillance technologies. She is director of the Surveillance Studies Network and founder of the Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network. A former journalist and feminist activist, she has published extensively on digital control and the surveillance of women in Iran and regularly advises international organizations on issues of digital repression.

Firoozeh Farvardin is a sociologist and researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, specializing in politics and gender in the context of authoritarian neoliberalism. Her dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin examined the transformation of state and family politics in modern Iran. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and part of the Middle East Research Group (MERGE) at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM). Her work combines theoretical acuity with a deep engagement with bodies, gender and resistance in the Global South.

Maryam Palizban is a theater scholar, artist, curator and actress. Born in Iran in 1981, she lives and works in Berlin. She received her doctorate in 2014 from the Freie Universität Berlin and the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) with the dissertation Performativity of Murder (Kadmos Verlag, 2017). Known as an actress from Deep Breath (Cannes 2003), Fat Shaker (Rotterdam 2013, Tiger Award) and Lantouri (Berlinale 2016, Iranian Film Academy Award). Her involvement during the Jina Revolution forced her to realize her projects from abroad and has shaped her artistic and curatorial work ever since. Palizban conceived and curated 3 Days to Liberation and develops formats in which artistic practice, memory and knowledge can be experienced directly.

Part of the program of:
3 DAYS TO LIBERATION II
(statement and program)
December 12-14, 2025
Conceived & curated by Maryam Palizban
Presented by CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK

Price information:

Available here: KOMBITICKET FREITAG IM ROTEN SALON: € 13 / reduced € 10 / valid for the two events on Friday, 12.12.: My Stolen Planet (film opening) at 18:30 and Echoes of Uprising (panel) at 20:30