Chokehold
Germany / Fiction / 00:06:46 min
A lonely and bullied supermarket cashier finds acceptance and a sense of belonging in an underground wrestling club, but her found community is threatened when a mistake she makes puts everything in jeopardy.Block 13
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Reza Mosadegh
In the 80 ́s, as the child of a refugee family, Reza Sam Mosadegh fled from Iran to Germany. He was not allowed to return to Iran for more than 20 years. The only visual connecJons to his old homeland were Iranian films and camcorder recordings of his family. Thus, Reza recognized the important meaning of film in his early years. Thereupon, he studied media economics and media sciences. His short film "Stolpersteine" has won several internaJonal awards. As a screenwriter, he has received several grants, two of them from "Moin Filmförderung Hamburg". He has high expectaJons in terms of visual language, that is important to him because, as a refugee child, he wanted to understand films despite the language barrier.