"The shadows cross the bridge in the night", 00:03:03
This film trying to tell the story of a member of a resistance group without revealing the names of people, places or even the historical period in which the events take place. Instead, it shows fragments from different contexts and periods: From my childhood in Baghdad, where I lived under the rule of a fascist regime that marked people with color in public to arrest them in the face of their political opinion; from my youth, where I experienced one of the fastest growing resistance movements in modern history, where people threw grenades from bridges to hit the occupation tanks. This film talks about resistance whenever and wherever it exists. For this reason, half of this film was shot in an abandoned station -the Siemens S-Bahn station in Berlin.
The film begins with two people trying to smuggle weapons into a city by car, being followed by security forces. The authorities continue to pursue the two and catch the people by marking their cars, bags, clothes etc. with yellow stickers. The brightness of the yellow colour itself and the large number of security guards in the city make it easy to spot the two people a few minutes after the act of labeling.
The film shows the same moment/event from three different moral perspectives: the resistance /martyrs from an epic/poetic point of view, the traitors through a realistic lens -both groups are opposed and extreme in this society -and finally the people who choose to be in the grey zone during the greatest moral struggles.
