Ketevan Vashagashvili

1 month ago | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Niloufar Taghizadeh |Ketevan Vashagashvili

There are many ways of silencing people. The most efficient and sophisticated one is getting them to do it themselves, in what’s commonly known as self-censorship. Eight Turkish artists get together in order to reflect upon the dynamics of oppression, thereby revealing that we often discard our most subversive works and ideas without even realising it. The documentary immediately ascertains that censorship in Turkey has become a lot stricter since the suppression of the Gezi Park protests in 2013.

1 month ago | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Ketevan Vashagashvili |Steven Eastwood |Sam Ahern

Born in Tehran in 1950 under the name of Faegheh Atashin, Googoosh was catapulted to fame at a very young age. She sang in the movie Fear and Hope (George Obadiah, 1960), at the age of just 10. She became a regular feature on Iranian film and television in her teens, singing groovy songs inspired by The Jackson 5 and Shirley Bassey, she tells us. She became the country’s biggest household name in the 1970s, and soon started touring the world – recording in English, French, Italian and Spanish.