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Fragility | Berlin Feminist Film Week

5th - 9th of March 2020

Fragility

Ahang Bashi - Sweden - 2016 - 73 min

In the peak of her career documentary filmmaker Ahang Bashi falls down in a deep gorge of panic attacks and depression. With a skin deep precision, beautiful imagery and a black humor she carries the viewer into the swirling world of anxiety, sometimes dark and sometimes hopeful. With the camera as her tool she brings us back in time to the escape from Iran and the little girl who did not understand.

Fragility is a film about living with anxiety and panic attacks, Bashi films herself in her very darkest moments and anyone who wants to begin to understand what panic attacks do to you should see this film. People with panic attacks and anxiety quickly get passed a diagnosis, but is it really them or the society we live in that is sick?  The documentary also questions the trauma of fleeing to another country and never dealing with the experiences as well as the “good girl” phenomena.

Watch the trailer:

FS - Fragility - english trailer from Momento Film on Vimeo.

Director: Ahang Bashi

Ahang Bashi was born in 1984 in Shiraz, Iran, and moved to Sweden with her family when she was three years old. She now lives and works in Stockholm. Ahang studied social anthropology at Dalarna University before she discovered documentary filmmaking. In 2011 she graduated from the documentary filmmaking program at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she during her studies directed the award-winning Paradiset (Paradise). Her first feature length documentary Fragility (2016) won her the prize for Newcomer of the year at Guldbaggegalan 2017, Best Swedish Feature – The City Of Gothenburg Award at GFF 2017 and the Mai Zetterling Grant during the same festival.
For Ahang filmmaking is a way to make personal issues political, and her films often concern issues of identity, alienation, migration and love. Her personally told documentaries cut straight through the heart at the same time as the often present tragicomical elements makes the audience laugh. Currently Ahang is working on her first fiction feature The Gods (working title) based on a book by Elin Cullhed.