Meryem Uzerli was born in 1983, Kassel, Germany.
She moved to Hamburg to complete her education and acting training in The acting Studio Frese, before she moved to berlin to continue her Theater career.
She took a part in plays of well-known authors such as Shakespeare, Brecht , Goldoni and Büchner.
Category Archives: Women,s voices
Telling the Stories Beyond the Silver Posters of Satyajit Ray
By Piu Mahapatra. Read full article on Silhouette
Posters are an extension of movies. In a pre-digital world, they were the precursors to come first in public view, not the trailers that cloud the youtube sky like today. Satyajit Ray, a visual artist of immense caliber was particular that the posters of his films remained refreshing and different from the disappointingly dull and monotonous bandwagon. In this article, Piu Mahapatra delves in deep to see how some of these posters, when considered in pairs, whisper a story to each other.
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The song we sang (Aarti Neharsh) India
The Song We Sang
Aarti Neharsh
India. 2020. 21 min
The quiet city of Ahmedabad comes alive during the nine nights of Navratri- a dance festival celebrated across India. Krishna, an economist questioning certain choices she’s made in her life, meets Alia, a friend’s cousin from Delhi. A plate of sweet-spicy golgappas and a song leads to more and the two women decide to ditch the loud Navratri event and walk the city, carrying conversations about love, home, religion, fears, falling for each other as the night grows. However, every choice made is another choice forgone, leading to a different reality- a reality where this night might not have happened.
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Saroj Dutta and His Times (Kasturi Basu, Mitali Biswas) India
Saroj Dutta and His Times
Kasturi Basu, Mitali Biswas
India. 2018. 115 min
A communist poet and radical journalist, a secret State killing, an attempted revolution sparked in the village of Naxalbari at the Himalayan foothills. Setting out to tell the story of the slain revolutionary Saroj Dutta (lovingly known as comrade S.D.), the film gets drawn into a vortex of his tumultuous times, tracing turns and twists of the communist movement in India over three decades. A search by present-generation filmmakers, the film uses personal and public historical archives and conversations with rebels of the Naxalbari rebellion. Five decades later, the film holds a key to understanding the turbulent, audacious sixties and seventies in India and the world.
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Zain Duraie making waves with award winning movie
Jordanian filmmaker Zain Duraie is making waves with award-winning movies that take a provocative stance on social and gender taboos. BroadcastPro ME spoke to her about her motivations, resources and convictions. Continue reading Zain Duraie making waves with award winning movie
Molly Stuart (Objector) In Imagineindia
First published in FILM DAILY
Molly Stuart is an up-and-coming filmmaker with a message to send. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Molly was a 2018 Women Peace and Security Fellow. She did all this while earning an MFA in cinema at San Francisco State University. That’s not all. Molly has won the Bill Nichols Excellence in Cinema Award, the Canon Best in Show Award, the Spotlight on Women in Film Award, and the Barbara Hammer Award. Continue reading Molly Stuart (Objector) In Imagineindia
Meet Jessica Oreck – “One man dies a million times”
By Sophia Stewart for Women and Hollywood
Jessica Oreck is a writer and director. Her first film, “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo,” was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2010 and aired on PBS’ “Independent Lens” series, as well as playing theatrically around the world. Since then, her credits have included ” “Venus,” “Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys,” and “The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga.” Continue reading Meet Jessica Oreck – “One man dies a million times”
Trinh Minh Ha at Imagineindia 2020
The radical filmmaker, teacher at Berkeley and writer talks essentialism in identity politics and why her films are neither documentary nor fiction.
Trinh T. Minh-ha’s first film, Reassemblage (1982), is in some sense a work of ethnographic cinema. Shot in Senegal, it is filled with scenes of daily life, especially of village women. Continue reading Trinh Minh Ha at Imagineindia 2020
Mahtab Keramati, jury at Imagineindia 2024
Mahtab Keramati will be Jury at Imagineindia 2024
She was the Jury President at the 19th edition at Imagineindia in 2020.
Born on October 17, 1970 in Tehran, Iran, in 2006 she was appointed UNICEF National Ambassador in Iran.
She was taking acting courses when she was cast for the role of Helen in The Men of Angelos, which earned her national recognition. She later appeared in films such as Mummy III and Rain Man, for which she was nominated for the Fajr Crystal Simorgh International Film Festival. She then appeared in dramas such as Saint Mary and Crimson Soil and the films Hell, Purgatory, Heaven, There are things you don’t know, Alzheimer’s and the private life of Mr. and Mrs. M .. She won a Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress in a supporting role for Twenty In 2015, winner of the Award for Best Actress International Imagineindia Film Festival.
Keramati won the Best Actress Award at Imagineindia for her performance in “Ghosts” by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui.
After the earthquake of Bam City which occurred on 26 December 2003, she approached philanthropy and charity work and on 30 December she was one of the artists partaking in a charity meeting for quake-stricken people of Bam. From 2013, releasing prisoners-sentenced-to-nemesis, have become one of the charity work she does and she has put some efforts in collecting blood money and getting the next of kin’s satisfaction. In this respect Shahab Moradi has been one of her companions. She is also a women’s rights activist.
- Mardi Az jense Bolour (1999)
- Mumiyayi 3 (2000)
- Mard Barani (2000)
- Behesht az ane To (2000)
- Molaghat ba Tooti (2003)
- Shahe Khamoosh (2003)
- Hashtpa (2005)
- Salvation at 8:20 (2005)
- Hess-e Penhan (2007)
- The Reward of Silence (2007)
- Adam (2007)
- Atash-e Sabz (2008)
- Shirin (2008)
- Tardid (2009)
- Women Are Angels (2009)
- Doozakh Barzakh Behesht (2009)
- Bist (2009)
- Shabane Rooz (2010)
- Adamkosh (2010)
- There Are Things You Don’t Know (2010)
- Alzheimer (2011)
- Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011)
- The Private Life of Mr. & Mrs. M (2012)
- Azar (2012)
- The Fourth Child (2013)
- Inadvertent (2014)
- Hussein Who Said No
- Ghosts (2014)
- Arghavan (2014)
- Jameh Daran (2015)
- Ice Age (2015)
- BIAFF Film Festival Promo Video 2017 (2017)
- Mazar-i-Sharif[4][5]
- Majan (2015)
- mordad (2015)
- Boht (2016)
- Shayad Eshgh Nabod (2016)
- old Road (2016)
- orca (2019)
- Sahneh Zani (2020)
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