To the main content To the footer
KVS
© Danny Willems

(NOT) MY PARADISE

Sachli Gholamalizad / KVS
Fri 27.09.2019 - Tue 19.01.2021
27.09.2019
-
19.01.2021

KVS face Sachli Gholamalizad tells the story of her grandmother and grandfather who own a  fashionable nightclub where divas and alcohol flourish. Old uncles enjoy relating grandfather’s heroic stories, but through the cracks of the past his dark side also emerges ... as well as the differences between men and women, East and West, and freedom and boundaries.

In (Not) my paradise (2016), Sachli Gholamalizad focusses on the importance of property, of territory, of a place that links you to your roots. Through the camera, she tells the story of her grandparents, who ran a mundane night club in Iran. Their legacy, a patch of land at the Caspian coast, has been connecting and dividing the family for decades. 

The young Belgian-Iranian dramatist and actress Sachli Gholamalizad received both national and international acclaim for her successful performance A Reason to Talk, about the events surrounding her mother’s migration. You might also have seen her in TV series and films. She drew her inspiration for (Not) my paradise from numerous conversations with her grandmother, other family members and visitors to her grandfather’s nightclub.

Is part of the selection:

Extra

27.09.2019 - Introduction 19:40

‘Scherp en ontroerend docutheater over gerafelde familiebanden en de afstand tussen generaties.’
– Theaterkrant
‘Un spectacle troublant, porteur d’émotions.’
- RTBF

Credits

VAN & MET / DE & AVEC / BY & WITH Sachli Gholamalizad SCENOGRAFIE/ SCÉNOGRAPHIE/ SCENOGRAPHY 88888 (Karel Burssens, Jeroen Verrecht) GELUIDSONTWERP / CONCEPTION SON / SOUNDSCAPE Sebastiaan Van Den Branden GELUID / SON / SOUND Donald Berlanger LICHTONTWERP / CONCEPTION LUMIÈRE / LIGHTING DESIGN Ralf Nonn LICHTTECHNIEK / TECHNIQUE LUMIÈRE / LIGHT TECHNICIAN Margareta Andersen MONTAGE / MONTAGE / EDITING Moj Bah CAMERA / CAMÉRA Sachli Gholamalizad TWEEDE CAMERA / DEUXIÈME CAMÉRA / SECOND CAMERA Julie De Clercq DRAMATURGIE / DRAMATURGY Tunde Adefioye VIDEOTECHNIEK / TECHNIQUE VIDÉO / VIDEO TECHNICIAN Pier Gallen VERTALERS / TRADUCTEURS / TRANSLATORS Isabelle Grynberg (EN/FR), Martine Wezenbeek (EN/NL), Anne Vanderschueren (NL/FR), Trevor Perri (NL/EN), Tunde Adefioye (EN), Moj Bahadori (FARSI/EN) BOVENTITELING & REDACTIE BOVENTITELING / SURTITRAGE & RÉDACTION SURTITRAGE / SURTITLES & EDITING SURTITLES Inge Floré PRODUCTIE & VIDEO / PRODUCTION & VIDÉO / PRODUCTION & VIDEO Catherine Vervaecke PRODUCTIE / PRODUCTION KVS COPRODUCTIE / COPRODUCTION / COPRODUCTION De Brakke Grond, Vooruit, Royal Theatre Plymouth, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd. MET DANK AAN / REMERCIEMENTS À / THANKS TO Maryam Kamal Hedayat