In The Name Of Scheherazade Or The First Beergarden In Tehran

Forget everything you think you know about storytelling! And get ready for a surreal journey. Narges Kalhor follows four characters who have moved to Germany to escape the grim and dangerous political situation in their home countries. She takes us on a dive into a funny and deconstructed happy apocalypse of a web of stories. A gay Syrian teenager fears that his visa might be refused and he will have to return home. An Iranian girl dreams of a beer garden in the heart of Tehran. Another struggles with her film project and her tutor, who gives useless advice on how to make her work easier to understand, for example. And as Scheherazade continues to spin her tales night after night, the world slowly turns upside down. A film that gives new meaning to getting lost in translation while opening up new perspectives on communication and multiculturalism. A hymn to the sheer power and freedom of creativity. A film that combines many levels of reality, juggles with fiction, pokes fun at documentary film and defies its rules.