Director
Diana Bahirian
About Director
Studium der Bildenden Kunst, Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Frankfurt/ M. Freischaffender Künstler: Malerei, Skulptur, Installation, NFT und Experimenteller Film:
2015 “Playground 13-14” 74 min.
2018-19 “Letter to Goya” 66 min.
2022-23 “Ma Hama Esti (us still exists)” 64 min.
2016 CINEMA HONORS
EUROPEAN CINEMA ARTDAY Brotfabrik Berlin (Germany)
Series: ART REVOLT Lichtspielkino Bamberg (Germany)
2019 FILMPRIZES
HONORABLE MENTION “Letter to Goya” LA Underground Forum, Los Angeles
HONORABLE MENTION “Letter to Goya” Forum Experimental Forum, Los Angeles
OFFICIAL SELECTION “Letter to Goya” Blow Up International Arthouse Filmfestival, Chicago
2023 FILMPRIZES
HONORABLE MENTION “Ma hama esti” Experimental Forum, Los Angeles
SEMI FINALIST “Ma hama esti” Blow up International Arthouse Filmfestival, Chicago
AWARD WINNER “Ma hama esti” Chalachitra International Film Awards
AWARD WINNER “Playground13-14” Bester narrativer Spielfilm
Chalachitra International Film Awards
FINALIST “Playground13-14” Best Experimental Chalachitra International Film Awards
AWARD WINNER “Ma hama esti” Best Music Video, Humro Cinema Film Fest
FINALIST “Ma hama esti” Best Experimental Humro Cinema Film Fest
AWARD WINNER “Playground13-14” Best Soundtrack Humro Cinema Film Fest
FINALIST “Playground13-14” Best Drama Humro Cinema Film Fest
FINALIST “Playground13-14” Best Experimental Humro Cinema Film fest
SEMI-FINALIST “Ma hama esti” Best Experimental Near Nazareth Festival
Film Overview
Look at yourself in the mirror and recognize your double self, which flies like a butterfly from tree to tree, from country to country, without being destroyed.
The 62-minute experimental film flows like a river from which further animations challenge us. The intense film music speaks to us as instead of the forms and figures depicted in the film.
The content of the film concerns the current situation in the world with its social conflicts in connection with the natural disasters of our time.
The film title “Ma hama esti” is formulated in the Zazaki language, in Zaza, the mother tongue of many other languages, a language that is under threat.
Ma Hama esti means that we still exist.
