Trans_plantationen: Screening "Farah"
with Ginan Seidl
FARAH (2022) is a film about adolescence; about the complexity of finding one’s place in a foreign context and making it a home. The documentary follows its teenage protagonist Farahnaz growing up, growing into and out of the various pre- or self-determined images of oneself. Having been raised as a boy according to the Afghan “Bacha Posh” tradition, Farahnaz self-confidently renegotiates the roles socially assigned to her – as an immigrant in Germany, as a girl in boys’ clothes, as a family member and as a friend.