Round table. "Women Directors in Europe: Present and Future"
Date and time: Wednesday, Nov. 5th, 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Madrid
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Title: Round Table. "Women Directors in Europe: Present and Future"
Type of activity: Round table
Participants:
- Narges Kalhor / Director / Germany
- Katalin Gödrös / Director / Switzerland
- Mercedes Stalenhoef / Director / The Netherlands
Moderator: Elena Manrique / Director / Spain
– With the collaboration of EUNIC, European Union National Institutes for Culture.
– Activity with simultaneous translation.
Narges Kalhor (Tehran, 1984. Based in Munich) is an award-winning Iranian-German director, video artist and editor. Her work moves between documentary, experimental art and fiction, frequently exploring themes such as exile, identity, feminist perspectives and political resistance. During her studies at the Tehran Film Academy, she was a student of renowned filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami. In 2009, she applied for political asylum during a visit to Germany, which attracted international attention, as she is the daughter of then-Iranian President Ahmadinejad's top cultural adviser. After her application was accepted, she studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her graduation film, In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beer Garden in Tehran, received the Goethe-Institut Award for Best Documentary at the 2019 DOK Leipzig festival.
Katalin Gödrös, Zurich, is a director and screenwriter, graduated from the Budapest Film Academy in 1996. Her directorial debut, Mutanten, premiered at the Berlinale in 2002, and Songs of Love and Hate (2010) was presented in the international competition at Locarno. She has worked on the series The Undertaker for Swiss national television and for Netflix, and since 2021 she has been a professor at the International Film School in Cologne.
Mercedes Stalenhoef grew up in Arnhem and studied Art History at Leiden University. Subsequently, she made short documentaries for Amnesty International and various television channels. Her debut feature, Ik wil nooit beroemd worden (2005), won a Golden Calf at The Netherlands Film Festival after its success at the IDFA. In 2008, her film Carmen meets Borat became an international success after its premiere at the IDFA: it won the award for Best Documentary in St. Petersburg, Lessinia and Minsk. The film was the official candidate of The Netherlands for the Oscars. In 2012 it was followed by the documentary Karsu, also selected by the IDFA and international film festivals. In 2023, her documentary Mijn grote broer premiered at the Movies that Matter Film Festival. It won the Movies that Matter award and also a Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival.
