- Occupation
Director - Country
Slovak Republic
Karimi Sahraa
Afghan Women Behind the Wheel
The desire for freedom is natural for people all over the world.Obtaining a driving license is becoming a key factor towards personal freedom for Afghan women. However, is the Afghan society prepared for women behind the wheel? This topic and many others are beeing discussed by young talented director Sahraa Karimi in her film Afghan Women Behind the Wheel.By interviewing women of different age and from different social conditions, Shaara, born and raised in Kabul, gets the idea of their lifes and dreams. She tries to understand the issue of personal freedom in connection with getting a driving licence. The film is a fascinating portrait of women´s life in Kabul, where dreams are different to reality, Kabul, where the present time still has to face the culture of the past.
… Behold Alone Woman at the Beginning of a Cold Season…
Woman and as a human being.It is the story of her intimate dialogue with herself.
Searching for a Dream
There is one telephone in the refugee camp in Gabcikovo, Slovakia. The story of the film tells about the relationship between refugees accomodated in the camp and the telephone. Sometimes it gives them hope, sometimes it is their only contact with the world outside.
Light Breeze
Emigration, desire for a fuller life and settling in a better place than one’s own – these are the motives of the poetic film by Afghan director Sahraa Karimi. Sahraa has experienced the long journey to freedom on her own feet; on her own she put this experience down on paper and she herself played the main character in her documentary.
The desire for freedom is natural for people all over the world.Obtaining a driving license is becoming a key factor towards personal freedom for Afghan women. However, is the Afghan society prepared for women behind the wheel? This topic and many others are beeing discussed by young talented director Sahraa Karimi in her film Afghan Women Behind the Wheel.By interviewing women of different age and from different social conditions, Shaara, born and raised in Kabul, gets the idea of their lifes and dreams. She tries to understand the issue of personal freedom in connection with getting a driving licence. The film is a fascinating portrait of women´s life in Kabul, where dreams are different to reality, Kabul, where the present time still has to face the culture of the past.
… Behold Alone Woman at the Beginning of a Cold Season…
Woman and as a human being.It is the story of her intimate dialogue with herself.
Searching for a Dream
There is one telephone in the refugee camp in Gabcikovo, Slovakia. The story of the film tells about the relationship between refugees accomodated in the camp and the telephone. Sometimes it gives them hope, sometimes it is their only contact with the world outside.
Light Breeze
Emigration, desire for a fuller life and settling in a better place than one’s own – these are the motives of the poetic film by Afghan director Sahraa Karimi. Sahraa has experienced the long journey to freedom on her own feet; on her own she put this experience down on paper and she herself played the main character in her documentary.
Education: 1988-1999 Maktab Zeinab – Kabul /Afganistan/, grammar school, major mathematics, physics, Teheran /Iran/. 1999-2001 Shahid Chamran University/Iran/, Polytechnic faculty – major engineering. 2004-2009 The Academy of Music and Performing Arts (VŠMU), major: documentary. Courses: 1997-2000 course of camera - Institute of Arts – Baqhe Ferdous – Teheran /Iran/. 1999-2000 creative writing course – Institute of Arts – Baqhe Ferdous – Teheran /Iran/. Work experience: 1998-2001 Arqavan atelier – cameraman, Teheran /Iran/. 1999-2001 lecturing in mathematics and physics, Teheran /Iran/. 1999 „Daughter of the Sun “ / Mariam Shahriar/ - main role. 1999 „Shooting in the dark“ /short film, directed by: Najib Ahmadi/ - Assistant Director. 2000 „White Dream“ /film, directed by: Hamid Jebeli/ - main role. 2000 „The History of Sorrow“ /documentary on Afghanistan - 10 episodes/ - TV Iran 1 – First
Assistant Scriptwriter. 2002 „Who is Sahraa?“ /documentary, directed by: Martin Hossein Fazeli/ - main role. 2003 „At School with Foreigners“ /short documentary – director/. 2003 „Gabo“ /short documentary/ - director. 2004 „ Searching for a Dream“ / documentary/ - director. 2005 „ Light and Dark “ / short film / - director. 2005 „Behold Alone Women at the Beginning of a Cold Season” /short documentary/ - director. 2006 „A Simple Question“ - film survey, documentary - director.
Education:
1988-1999 Maktab Zeinab – Kabul /Afganistan/
grammar school, major mathematics, physics, Teheran /Iran/
1999-2001 Shahid Chamran University/Iran/, Polytechnic faculty – major engineering
09/2004-present The Academy of Music and Performing Arts (VŠMU) – major: documentary
Courses:
1997-2000 course of camera - Institute of Arts – Baqhe Ferdous – Teheran /Iran/
1999-2000 creative writing course – Institute of Arts – Baqhe Ferdous – Teheran /Iran/
Work experience:
1998-2001 Arqavan atelier –cameraman, Teheran /Iran/
1999-2001 lecturing in mathematics and physics, Teheran /Iran/
1999 „Daughter of the Sun “ / Mariam Shahriar/ - main role
1999 „Shooting in the dark“ /short film, directed by: Najib Ahmadi/ - Assistant Director
2000 „White dream“ /film, directed by: Hamid Jebeli/ - main role
2000 „The history of sorrow“ /documentary on Afghanistan - 10 episodes/ - TV Iran 1 – First
Assistant Scriptwriter
2002 „Who is Sahraa?“ /documentary, directed by: Martin Hossein Fazeli/ - main role
2003 „At school with foreigners“ /short documentary – director/
2003 „Gabo“ /short documentary/ - director
2004 „ Searching for a dream“ / documentary/ - director
2005 „ light and dark “ / short film / - director
2005 „Behold alone women at the beginning of a cold season” /short documentary/ - director
2006 „A simple question“ - Film-Anketa, documentary, - director
Festivals
Film „Daughters of the sun“ – as an actress
2000 Montreal festival of world cinema- canada – best first feature
2001 International film festival Bratislava-Slovakia – the first prize for the best film
Film “Searching for a dream”- Director
2nd prize for Student Documentary - 22nd FEMINA FILM, Ústí nad Labem, Czech republic
Gold Mikeldi for Documentary Film - 47th Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and
Short films „UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN MEN THROUGH PICTURES“, Bilbao, Spain
• 48th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig,
Germany (3. – 9. 10. 2005)
• EAST SILVER DOCS MARKET during the 9th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech republic (25. – 30. 10. 2005)
• 11th MedFilm Festival, Roma, Italy (7. – 20. 11. 2005)
• 6th International Doc Film Festival ONE WORLD, Bratislava, Slovakia (9. – 13. 11. 2005)
• 10th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France (15. – 27. 11. 2005)