Date: 20.07.2025
Time: 18:00 Uhr
Location: OYA Bar, Cologne
We cordially invite you to this special screening on the 100th birthday of Frantz Fanon, honoring the anti-colonial spirit he championed.
Presented by Korsi and Kanax4Life as part of the Dirty Content 101 film series.
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
Directed by Heiny Srour
64 minutes | Arabic with English subtitles
Under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force, director Heiny Srour crossed 800 km with her team to make The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, documenting the democratic and feminist guerrilla movement of Dhofar.
In the late 1960s, the region rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman and succeeded in liberating a third of the territory while initiating broad social reforms — building schools, farms, hospitals, and roads.
For Srour, a committed feminist filmmaker, Dhofar was transformative. It was, as she later recalled, “the first time in the Arab world that an organized political force has considered women’s liberation as an end in itself.”
True to that ethos, the film refuses to render women invisible. It foregrounds the female guerrillas — training, teaching, and fighting alongside men — as equal participants in the struggle for liberation.
Voices of Bakur
31 minutes | Kurdish with English subtitles
In the summer of 2015, the Turkish state launched a brutal war against Kurdish communities organizing an assembly-based system founded on women’s liberation and democratic autonomy.
According to the Diyarbakir Human Rights Association, between July 2015 and July 2016, 1,552 people were killed — including 320 civilians and 75 children.
Voices of Bakur features interviews with Kurdish organizers who faced imprisonment, exile, or death for their participation in self-governance movements. The film also includes archival footage from banned and shut-down media outlets, capturing the realities of resistance and state violence in southeastern Turkey.
A night of cinema dedicated to revolutionary memory, women’s liberation, and the enduring struggle against colonial power.
Entry free | Donations welcome
