Shakiba Adil (Kabul/Outokumpu)
The filmmaker was born in Kabul in 1975. She graduated from the Malalai
School. After 2001, she hosted a children's programme on Kabul TV and worked
as a camerawoman with the media organization AINA. In 2004, she emigrated
to Finland, where she completed training in the multicultural programme
Basaari of the YLE television station. She is currently studying radio,
television and documentary film production at North Carelian College.
Latif Ahmadi (Kabul)
The director born in 1950 in Kabul finished his studies to become a certified
engineer in 1975 and founded the film production firm Ariana in the same
year. He has since then produced a number of advertising films and worked
as a cameraman. In the early 1980s, he worked for Afghan television. In
1982 he produced the feature film Farar ("Escape") and in 1986
Parandaha-ye mohajer ("Birds of Passage"). From 1986 to 1992 he
was the director of the state-run film production company Afghan Film, and
from 1992 to 1994 the cultural attaché to Tajikistan. He has been
living in Afghanistan again since 2002 and was again appointed the director
of Afghan Film in 2004.
Nacir Alqas (Kassel)
The director, born in 1956 in Kabul, finished his studies to become a film
director. He worked as a director and actor with Afghan Film and Afghan
TV and additionally hosted and produced numerous television shows. After
a murder attempt in Kabul, he emigrated with his family to Germany in 1996
and since then lives in Kassel. In 2006, he co-produced the film Zendan.
Deepa Dhanraj (Bangalore)
The filmmaker and feminist activist studied English literature at the University
of Madras. In 1980, she founded the Yugantar Film Collective. She has since
shot numerous short and documentary films. The documentary Taking Office,
produced in 2004, documents and analyzes the consequences of an amendment
in equal rights legislation passed in 1994 in India, according to which
33 percent of the seats in village councils must be granted to women.
Aşye Güleç (Kassel)
Since 1998 the social pedagogue works for the non-profit organisation Kulturzentrum
Schlachthof e.V. in the area of intercultural education. She is the director
of afada, a consulting and educational project of migrants. Ayse Gülec
has set off self-organized initiatives focussing on women's and migration
issues. Together with Christina Knüppel she initiated this year's documenta
advisory committee. The aim of the project was to integrate the documenta
locally.
Hephata Living Communities (Kassel)
Up to 34 so-called unaccompanied refugee minors live in the Hephata Living
Communities in Kassel. Unaccompanied refugee minors are young people who
flee to Germany without adults responsible for them, usually for the same
reason as adults: persecution, war and desperateness. In the Living Communities
they find a new temporary home and are looked after within the frame of
youth welfare. They are given orientation and integration aids in daily
life, language training, support in issues related to the right of asylum
and right of residence, school support, and help in coping with flight-related
traumata. Unaccompanied refugee minors seek protection in Germany and must
be specially protected both as refugees and as children or youths
Kabeh Rastin-Tehrani (Berlin)
The jurist was born in 1977 in Tehran. She studied jurisprudence at the
Humboldt University Berlin. Since 2005, she has been working at the Max-Planck-Institut
in Hamburg as a research associate in the department of law in Islamic countries.
Her main focus is on international and national law in Iran and Afghanistan.
She is currently writing a textbook in Dari on Afghan family law and doing
her doctorate on the theme of "International Civil Law of the Islamic
Republic of Iran".
Aiqela Rezaie (Kabul)
The teacher and actress was born in Kabul. She studied geography. Her debut
as an actress was the leading role in the feature film Five in the afternoon
(2002) by the Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf, in which she played a
woman dreaming of becoming the future president of Afghanistan. In 2002,
she assisted in producing the feature film Osama. From 2003-06, she participated
in the production of Passing the Rainbow as co-director and actress.
Roya Sadat (Herat)
The director was born in 1981 and studied politics in Herat. She is the
author of two short films and hosted several contributions to the public
television programme Woman and Society. Se noqta is the first longer feature
film she has directed. She is currently working in Kabul with Tolo TV and
on her second feature film.
Film group ungeduldig (Hamburg)
The film ungeduldig ("impatient") was produced within the frame
of the media project mokala - medien von zwischen den kulturen. The group
of young refugees and film professionals from Hamburg worked together for
six month on the film that premièred on Feb. 16, 2007. The aim was
and is to draw public attention to the topic of exceptional leave to remain
and to above all address a young audience. In 2007 ungeduldig was awarded
the Dieter-Baacke Prize for Media Pedagogy. The members of the film group
ungeduldig are: Aminatu Jalloh, Sushil Kahlon, Chander Bathija, Tanya Talreja,
Nina Noverijan, Marily Stroux, Christina Witz, Thorsten Winsel, and Gesa
Becher.
Maliha Zulfacar (Berlin)
The sociologist, who once worked at the University of Kabul, fled from Afghanistan
in 1979. She studied in the United States and did her doctorate in Germany.
She then taught at Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, and
since 2002 again at the University of Kabul. Her thematic focus is on gender,
international immigration and global ethnic conflicts. She produced her
first film, Guftago: Dialogue with an Afghan Village, in 2001. Starting
in 2002, she was the deputy minister for the system of higher education
in the Afghan interim government, concerned with the reconstruction of the
school system. Since 20007, she is the Afghan ambassador to Germany in Berlin.
