ROPEWLAKER MEMORIES wins Serri Sureya Award in Rojava IFF 2025
Hamed Rajabi’s second feature-length film, ROPEWALKER MEMORIES, received Serri Sureya Award for Democracy and Human Rights in the 5th Rojava International Film Festival (November 13th to 20th, 2025 / Qamishlo, Syria).
With a deep, different reflection on the ropewalker and the Übermensch in Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, ROPEWALKER MEMORIES predicts how the uprising of the women individuals can teach the people in a country to fight for their rights. This way, it develops in a defamiliarised world, keeping its distance from the conventional dramatic solutions and turning the film into an allegory for a patriarchal world, where some women try to teach others to struggle for freedom.
The film has been previously screened at Pune IFF 2024, Dhaka IFF 2024, Latur IFF 2024, Festival Cinéma(s) d’Iran 2024, Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2024 and Wales IFF 2024.