Thursday, May 14 | 12:00 PM | Kinoteka 1
Educational meeting: Migration as a Personal Experience
after the screening of the film A FOX UNDER A PINK MOON, dir. Mehrdad Oskouei, Soraya Akhalaghi
Recommended age: 16+
Trigger warning: This film deals with the subject of domestic violence.
For five years, 16-year-old Soraya Akhalaghi filmed key moments of her life on a mobile phone. During this time, she created striking drawings and sculptures while attempting to escape Iran, fleeing a violent husband to join her mother in Austria. Built from fragments of the protagonist’s personal archive and directed entirely remotely, the film sits at the intersection of artistic cinema and autobiographical essay. It explores questions of identity, migration, and freedom, as well as the need for artistic expression as a means of survival. Here, art becomes not only a tool for storytelling but also a symbol of freedom and escape, as well as a way to reclaim agency and dignity.
The educational meeting will be led by Nina Michnik – an educator, Arabist and researcher with extensive experience in the field of activism. She is a co-founder of the association ‘Podróżnych Ugościć’, established in response to the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.
