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‘Immortals,’ About Iraqi Anti-Government Protestors, Boarded by Cat&Docs: ‘Young People Were Crying for Visibility’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Cat&Docs has acquired world sales for 'Immortals,' the sophomore feature film by Swiss director Maja Tschumi, ahead of its CPH:DOX world premiere.
Paris-based outfit Cat&Docs has acquired world sales for “Immortals,” the sophomore feature film by Swiss director Maja Tschumi(“Rotzloch”), which will compete in the main competition at leading European documentary festival CPH:DOX. It tells the story of Milo, a feminist who sneaks out of the house dressed as a man so she can take part in the October 2019 protest movement in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, and Khalili, a young filmmaker who uses his camera as a weapon to document the bloody crackdown on the youth demonstrations. Including a female voice in the film was essential for Tschumi to show what she describes as a gender-segregated society, where women face very different problems to men, having to fight patriarchy before they can confront the state: when her family found out she had been protesting in 2019, Milo was imprisoned by her father in her own home for a year.
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