2.Dh5 returns to Cavia for their upcoming festival which will be held from 23 - 25 February. It's an annual festival for the exchange of radical ideas, strategies and practices by grassroots groups, collective projects and direct action campaigns in the Netherlands and beyond.

This year the urgency of international solidarity is more clear than ever. In this film night, we are encouraged to join quietly the rebellious performance of Tanin Torabi (طنین ترابی), award-winning and independent Iranian dance artist, and to listen the voice of Yadykar Ibraimov, an Almaty-born Uyghur artist.
 

IN PLAIN SIGHT
Tanin Torabi | 2021 | Iran | 10’

In Plain Sight is a film made by Tanin Torabi at a public space in Tehran. Torabi’s main motifs are inspired by sitting, tying up shoelaces and fixing the mandatory hijab on one’s head. […] The performers question what distinguishes dance from everyday movement in the female body, and how or when “normal” quotidian movements turn into transgressive acts of dance. Their conclusion was insightful: “Of course the cultural codes also depend on where and how you were raised. But we realized growing up in Iran, we somehow know, bodily, where the red lines are!” Tanin not only plays with everyday movements as her motifs, but in addition, the costumes she chooses are ordinary urban outfits. In doing so, she prevents the dancing body from being easily spotted. By not standing out, the female dancer has more space to blend in when needed. In addition, she makes a statement by not distinguishing herself from ordinary people. She remains one of many, and as in her performance Derive, transgression stays transient, camouflaged and hopefully safe from censorship.

— quoted from "Dancing into Alternative Realities: Gender, Dance, and Public Space in Contemporary Iran” by Saba Zavarei in Field Journal

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A LETTER HOME
Yadykar Ibraimov | Kazakhstan, East Turkistan | 2021 | 10’

Ramil and Yadykar travel to the border of West and East Turkestan to link them through audio messages. In the steppe, travelers or nomads were often the only connection between people in the countryside and the wider world. In these times of wireless Internet, it seemed that there was no longer any need or place for such messengers – but that has been proven wrong. The film shows a journey to broadcast voices from people all over the world to the Uyghur homeland, in an act to show that borders have always been and will always be contingent.

*During the evening, vegan soup will be served, also there will be a Q&A discussion with directors after the film screening.