Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi is to
teach at the National Cinema School's Experimental Centre for
Filmography (CSC) in Rome, Culture Minister Dario Franceschini
said Monday.
Karimi, 36, will be Visiting Professor at the CSC for the
2021/2022 academic year, the minister said.
She will teach a interdisciplinary course on innovative
storytelling, in English.
Karimi was, until she fled Afghanistan due to the Taliban
takeover, the director of the Afghan Film Organization.
On August 13 the Afghan director sent an open letter to the
international community urging it to help Afghan refugees.
Franceschini said Italy "is close to the Afghan people and wants
to safeguard artists' creative freedom".
Karimi has directed 30 short films, three documentary films and
one fiction film " Hava, Maryam, Ayesha " which had its world
premiere at the 76th Venice Film Festival in 2019.
She has a PhD from the Film and Television Faculty of the
Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava. Prior to
fleeing Afghanistan during the 2021 fall of Kabul, she was the
first and the only woman in Afghanistan to have a PhD in cinema
and filmmaking.
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