3 Days to Liberation II

Available here: COMBI PASS FRIDAY AT ROTER SALON: €13 / reduced €10 / valid for both events on Friday, 12 December: My Stolen Planet (film opening) at 6:30 p.m. and Echoes of Uprising (panel) at 8:30 p.m.

Part of the program
3 DAYS TO LIBERATION II
(Statement and program)
12–14 Dezember 2025
Conceived & curated by Maryam Palizban
Presented by CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK

Participants Farahnaz Sharifi, Azadeh Akbari, Firoozeh Farvardin
Moderator Maryam Palizban

Echoes of Uprising continues the journey of the opening film My Stolen Planet taking us from intimate memories to their collective reverberations. Different voices of the feminist revolution in Iran will speak about ongoing violence, censorship and the ever-increasing number of executions in the country. Echoes of Uprising – Voices Silenced, Voices Rising opens up a space for testimony and debate about the cost of liberty, the role of art and scientifc research as means of resistance, and the question of how to offer resistance under conditions of systematic oppression.

Farahnaz Sharifi is a filmmaker, film editor and author. She studied film at Tehran Soureh University. In her documentary work, she uses archive material and private images to retell personal and collective stories.

Azadeh Akbari is professor for Critical Data & Surveillance Studies at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C³S) at Frankfurt‘s Goethe University. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of digital transformation, digital authoritarianism, data justice and surveillance technologies. She is the director of the Surveillance Studies Network and founder of Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network. As a journalist and feminist activist, she has extensively published on digital control and the surveillance of women in Iran.

Firoozeh Farvardin is a sociologist and researcher at the Institute for Political Studies at the University of Vienna. Her specialist area is gender and politics in the context of authoritarian neo-liberal systems. She earned her doctorate with a thesis on the transformation of state and family politics in modern Iran from Berlin’s Humboldt University. She held postdoc scholarships as a fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianisman and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and of the Research Group Middle East (MERGE) at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM). Her work links theoretical precision with an in-depth exploration of bodies, genders, and resistance in the Global South.

Maryam Palizban is a theatre studies scholar, artis, curator and actor. Born in 1981 in Iran, she lives and works in Berlin. In 2014 she earned her doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin / Centre for literary and cultural research (ZfL) with a thesis on The Performativity of Murder, a study on martyrdom and Shiite ritual theatre practice. She has gained prominence in Iran through films such as Deep Breath (Cannes 2003), Fat Shaker (Rotterdam 2013, Tiger Award), and Lantouri (Berlinale 2016; Iranian Film Academy Award). Her engagement with the Jina Revolution led her to pursue her projects abroad, which has since shaped her artistic and curatorial work. Palizban conceived and curated 3 Days to Liberation, developing formats in which artistic practice, memory, and knowledge can be experienced in tangible ways.