A Revolution on Canvas

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Screenings:

• Thu, August 22, 2024 - Wed, August 28, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.
• Thu, August 29, 2024 - Sat, August 31, 2024 at 6:45 pm

• US 2023
• 95 min
• Director: Sara Nodjoumi, Till Schauder
• FSK: not specified
• Documentary: Original version with German voiceover and subtitles where applicable

Filmmakers Sara Nodjoumi and Till Schauder work both introspectively and investigatively, weaving the personal and the political into a gripping political thriller.

Following his 2017 film "When God Sleeps", Till Schauder returns with his wife and creative partner, first-time director Sara Nodjoumi, with an investigative documentary.
They focus on one of Iran's most revolutionary artists, Nickzad "Nicky" Nodjoumi. Born in Iran but living in New York City, Nodjoumi traveled back to Iran to join the Islamic Revolution, creating paintings and posters that criticized the Shah's regime. In 1980, the painter fled his home country after his solo exhibition "Report on the Revolution" at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art was destroyed and subsequently closed by radical Islamists. Decades later, as Iran is once again embroiled in protests after Iranian women and activists were repressed and killed by the Iranian 'morality police', the renowned artist and his daughter Sara attempt to track down the missing paintings in the hope of getting them back.
During the search, Sara, drawing on disarmingly frank conversations with her father and mother, the famous artist Nahid Hagigat, and grappling with complex feelings and secrets related to her own upbringing, traces a timeline of events. She tries to understand the circumstances that led to the constant political turmoil in her home country and her parents' personal estrangement, mirroring the difficult journey of many immigrant families caught in the crossfire of politics and life.