Tbilisi, Georgia, World Judo Championships: the Iranian Leile Husseini she is in extraordinary form and beats her opponents one after the other, so much so that the gold medal is a more than real possibility. From home, in her distant country, her husband and young son follow her, with her old friends; up close, a few meters from the tatami, the mat on which the competitions take place, says Maryam, her coach. But the possibility that Leila could meet an Israeli athlete in the final is unwelcome to the Islamic Republic, and for this reason the order arrives for her to withdraw from the competition: she will have to fake an injury and abandon the world championships. Or find the courage to make an impossible decision.
This is the plot from which it begins Tatamithe acclaimed film made by the Israeli director Native Guy together with her Iranian colleague Zahra Amir Ebrahimi which, on Wednesday 20 November at 3.00 pm, will be the ninth appointment of the event at the Space City cinema in Carpi Afternoon at the cinemapromoted byNatalia Ginzburg University with the contribution of CR Carpi Foundation and the patronage of Common.
Made in an essential black and white and capable of conveying all the intensity of the gestures and the difficult choices to be made, it tells both the physical struggle between the martial arts champions and the psychological one between the protagonist and the oppressive and patriarchal regime that it would like to make it a mere instrument of its own policy. A story of painful choices, of a struggle that transcends the single protagonist to become collective, and represents the fight of women against a brutal regime, as well as all the male power that would like to confine women within the perimeter of a square of oppression .
