West-Germany, 1971: seven-year-old Kimîa receives the gift of a Super 8 camera at her last Christmas in Germany before her family moves to Iran. With it, Kimîa captures the moment when her mother Hanna is astonished to learn that her husband has decided to send Kimia with his mother there in advance. German grandmother Hilde wants to stop them from moving by any means possible. Hanna now finds herself caught in the middle, forced to fight for her role as a young mother. MAMANAM tells the story of a young woman fighting for emancipation – told from a child’s perspective, filmed like an Instagram story on 8mm.

“MAMANAM is my mother’s and grandmother’s story. Or maybe it’s a version of that story with a different ending. Or maybe it’s my attempt to rewrite the story I wished it had ended for my mom.” (Linda-Schiwa Klinkhammer)

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