Film screening of "Sonne" + Virtual Q&A with Director Kurdwin Ayub, a Transnational Film Series
Women’s History Month Special
FILM SCREENING "SONNE" (2022) and VIRTUAL Q&A with Director Kurdwin Ayub
German with English subtitles
Synopsis: Yesmin, Nati, and Bella, three teenage girls from Vienna, twerk in hijab and sing a pop song. A YouTube video of it makes them famous overnight, especially among Yesmin's Kurdish Muslim community. Yesmin begins to distance herself more and more from her culture, while Nati and Bella seem fascinated by a world that is strange to them. A film about young people caught between social media and self-discovery, a story of rebellious young women.
Bio: Kurdwin Ayub (born 1990 in Iraq) is a director, writer, and artist based in Vienna. Her first narrative feature SONNE (2022) won the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) and earned her a nomination at the 35th European Film Awards. Her second feature MOON (2024) premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, where it received the Special Jury Prize. It was also nominated for a European Film Award.
This interdisciplinary series centers transnational and intersectional perspectives and aligns closely with university-wide initiatives connected to Women’s History Month, disability studies, Black Europe and Postmigrant Europe, and global cultural engagement.
Series Organizers
- Elisabetta Sanino D’Amanda – Italian Studies
- Rebecca Schaefer – German Studies
Co-sponsors: Conable Chair in Global Futures Program, Kern Chair in School of Communication, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, School of Film and Animation, and School of Individualized Studies
Light food and refreshments will be served.
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