It's a good day to die   Kamal & Jamal Hashemi

Seyed Kamaleddin Hashemi (*1976) – author, actor, filmmaker and theatre director – grew up in Chiraz/Iran. In 1995 he joined the Mehr Theatre Group, which performed Hearing at our 2017 festival. It’s a good day to die is an attempt to come to terms with the 2006 Iran-Iraq war. The work was censored.

With his two female protagonists – Yalta, a 33-year-old filmmaker, who finally returns to the family house at the end of the Iran-Iraq war, and Mona, who has made it her home in the meantime – Hashemi depicts the dimensions and consequences of war. Before the war, Yalta shot a film in the house, which she wants to continue, this time as a retrospective of her own life. Mona is part of the film. The house is increasingly falling apart, and the two women wonder whether it makes sense to stay or whether it would be better to explore new avenues and make a new start. One decides to move on, but the other does not want to leave the country.

Director: Kamal & Jamal Hashemi (Iran)