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FILMFEST AACHEN


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CINEMA OBSCURA

> Apollo Kino

23.-27. September / Filmfest Aachen 2026
Apollo Kino

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Filmfarsi

Genre, trash and B-movies disappeared from Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. During this time, the de facto film archive, the Kino Rex, was completely destroyed by fire following an act of arson. Director Ehsan Khoshbakht transforms over 1,000 ‘ghost films’ – which could not be released due to the new regulations introduced after 1979 – into a mosaic of past possibilities. In Filmfarsi, the tragedy of this lost media becomes a walk-in space of memories that were never made.

To expire means to disappear or to be unable to be released – irrevocably, and hardly anything represents this as much as film in its very materiality. Whether through censorship or destruction. And Khoshbakht’s protest against the past lies in his obsession with finding answers in it.

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Genre-, Trash- und B-Filme sind nach der Islamischen Revolution 1979 aus dem Iran verschwunden. Während dieser brannte ebenfalls das de facto Filmarchiv Kino Rex nach Brandstiftung vollkommen ab. Regisseur Ehsan Khoshbakht verwandelt über 1.000 „Geisterfilme“, die aufgrund der neuen Regularien nach 1979 nicht veröffentlicht werden konnten, in ein Mosaik vergangener Möglichkeiten. Die Tragik der ungesehenen Filme wird in Filmfarsi zu einem begehbaren Raum aus nie gemachten Erinnerungen.

To expire means, zu verschwinden oder nie veröffentlicht werden zu können – unwiderruflich, und kaum etwas repräsentiert dies so sehr wie Film in seiner Materialhaftigkeit selbst. Ob Zensur oder Zerstörung. In der Obsession, im Vergangenen Antworten zu finden, liegt Khoshbakhts Protest gegen ebenjenes.

Saturday, 26.09., 13:00, Apollo II, OmeU

Cuts der kritische filmpodcast

CUTS – Der kritische Film Podcast has been around since 2019 and is hosted by Christian Eichler and Lucas Barwenczik. The podcast analyzes current films, classics, and topics in film culture, often joined by guests such as film scholars. At the Filmfest Aachen, we will record a live episode – again, following 2025 – after the screening of Filmfarsi, discussing the film and exploring what aspects of expiration, lost media, films that return and those that dont

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