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The Frida Marida Show x Dragon Blood by Only Slime
2025-09-20 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Oslo) | Det Norske Teatret, Kristian IV’s gt.8, Oslo, 0164, Norway
Practical Information
📍 Venue: Det Norske Teatret📅 Date: September 20, 2025
🕔 Program:

16:30 → Dragon Blood by Only Slime

19:00 → The Frida Marida Show (duration: 1.5 hours)

🌍 Language: English🎟️ One ticket gives you access to both performances.
This performance is for Adults only

A Night of Fantasy, Music & Radical Hospitality

Masahat, in collaboration with Ultima, Det Norske Teatret, Karmaklubb and Only Slime, proudly presents The Frida Marida Show.
With support from Masahat and as part of the RAWABET project, Frida transforms a car steering wheel into a drum, tracing her personal journey — from a young man in Lebanon dreaming of music, to a woman, singer, and songwriter in Oslo. Life’s unexpected turns echo in rhythm and sound.
The evening opens with Dragon Blood by Only Slime, unfolding inside an immersive dinner-style installation: chandeliers, tables instead of rows, and performers moving among the audience. Everyone becomes part of the artwork. Guests are encouraged to wear imaginative, fantasy-inspired costumes.
At 19:00, Frida takes the stage with five musicians, two dancers, and a set of out-of-the-box concepts. She embraces Masahat’s 2025 theme of hospitality by singing in eight languages — inviting audiences into a shared cultural space across borders.
The night culminates with the launch of Frida Marida’s groundbreaking music video Fri Da Nipple — where six electronic boob-triggers become live instruments. Sound, body, and technology merge in a drag performance that redefines both music and art.

This event is presented in collaboration with Rawabet — a collective initiative led by Ettijahat – Independent Culture and implemented in partnership with GEZMATAZ, VOCE, coculture, Masahat, and Transversal Project.
Rawabet is supported by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) under the Creative Europe programme. The views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Masahat Screens & Sudanese Evening
2025-09-21 15:30 - 17:30 | Vega Scene, Hausmanns gate 30, Oslo, 0182, Norway
📍 Location: VEGA Scene, Oslo📅 Date: Sunday, September 21, 2025🕔 Time: 15:30–17:30 (films + discussion) → followed by Sudanese Evening (food + music)🎟️ Tickets: includes access to Masahat Screens + Sudanese evening

We close this year’s Masahat Festival at VEGA Scene, in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema, with an inspiring program that moves from film and dialogue to an evening of food, music, and celebration of Sudanese culture.

Part One: Masahat Screens
Program

– In Fields of Words (2022, 70 mins) | Lebanon | dir. Rania Stephan
– The Other Side of Beauty (2024, 11 mins) | Morocco, Sudan | dir. Sami Saif Sirelkhatim
– Gaza Artists (2024, 16 mins) – | Palestine | dir. Mustafa al-Nabih

Following the screenings, there will be a discussion with Syrian author Samar Yazbek.
About the films
In Fields of Words (2022, 70 mins) | Lebanon | dir. Rania Stephan
A filmic dialogue between Syrian writer-in-exile Samar Yazbek and Lebanese filmmaker Rania Stephan, asking what role cinema and literature can play in the face of war, death, and violence. Shot between 2013 and 2019, the film documents the course of the Syrian revolution and civil war while exploring the question: “Can literature and cinema capture this tragedy?” Combining image, sound, and Yazbek’s words, Stephan creates a poetic and political testimony of our time. Winner of the Best Film Award at the 2022 Villa Medici Film Festival.

The Other Side of Beauty (2024, 11 mins) | Morocco, Sudan | dir. Sami Saif SirelkhatimThe story of a Sudanese photographer who finds beauty in his homeland’s stars and landscapes, while also facing the violence of war and genocide in Darfur. His images reveal truth to the world, but at great personal cost—through imprisonment, torture, and repression.
Gaza Artists (2024, 16 mins) – | Palestine | dir. Mustafa al-Nabih
A short documentary produced by Arji foundation, written and directed by Mustafa Al-Nabih. It offers a window into the lives of Palestinian artists in the Gaza Strip, amid ongoing displacement and the difficult conditions they endure. The film takes us on a journey with three artists from different generations, all of whom were displaced from Gaza and now live in the city of Rafah in the south of the Strip. We follow their daily lives, struggles, and the impact of continuous displacement on their creativity and personal lives, through genuine human moments, aside from the usual images of destruction. It seeks to reveal the human side of those who continue to live, dream, and create despite all that has been lost. This film is a cry to the world: Gaza is being annihilated, but we love life, and we resist with love and art. Every moment here bears the imprint of war; every smile is a victory.

Part Two: Sudanese Evening: Food, Music & Stories
After films and discussion, the festival continues with a Sudanese Evening at VEGA.
✨ Tasting menu of iconic Sudanese dishes by chef Mohammed Mustafa.✨ Solo concert by young Sudanese-Norwegian talent Yasir Moa, a songwriter and storyteller blending classical tunes with rhythmic, danceable sounds.
This evening is curated in collaboration with Khalid Albaih and Naoures Rouissi.

My Father and Qaddafi, film + talk with Hajer Sharief
2026-03-06 20:00 - 22:00 | Vega Scene, Hausmanns gate 30, Oslo, 0182, Norway
My Father and Qaddafi بابا والقذافي
USA, Libya I 2025 I 88 minutes I Language: English, Arabic, French I Subtitles: English I Age limit: 15 I Director: Jihan
We are glad to partner with HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival on the screening of My Father and Qaddafi followed by a conversation with with Hajer Sharief on Friday 6th of March kl. 20.00 at VEGA Scene. Zeina Bali, Managind Director of Masahat will lead the talk.
About the film:
A daughter’s search for her missing father, Mansur Kikhia, former foreign minister and UN ambassador in Qaddafi’s Libya.
The filmmaker, Jihan, was only 6 years when her father suddenly disappeared from a human rights conference in Cairo in 1993. Her mother, a strong character in the film, buys a video camera for the family after the father’s disappearance.
Through home videos and other archival material, the director reflects back on who her father was, and travels to find answers among her father’s relatives and friends, who remind us of the backdrop of his disappearance; the brutal regime of Qaddafi and Libya’s history as a colony.
A brilliant and captivating documentary about a daughter’s personal longing for her father as much as the histories and politics of the collective struggles of the Libyan people longing for their freedom.

Filmkveld: The Present og Leila and the Wolves
2026-03-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Det Norske Teatret, Kristian IV’s gt.8, Oslo, 0164, Norway
Vising av den Oscarnominerte kortfilmen The Present og Leila and the Wolves, vinnar av den største prisen under Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.
Kortfilm: Al-hadiya/ The Present/ (2020) الهدية
På bryllaupsdagen sin legg Yusef og den vesle dottera hans ut på tur på Vestbreidda for å kjøpe ei gåve til kona hans. Mellom soldatar, segregerte vegar og kontrollpostar – kor lett vil det vere å dra på handletur?
Regissør Farah Nabulsi Av Farah Nabulsi, Hind Shoufani
Varar i 24 minutt
SPRÅK Arabisk, engelske tekstar

Langfilm: Leila wa al ziap/ Leila and the Wolves / ليلى والذئاب (1984)
Filmen vev saman rekonstruksjonar, arkivopptak og eventyrsekvensar for å skape eit vitnemål om historia til libanesiske og palestinske kvinner og dei politiske kampane i det tjuande hundreåret.
Regissør Heiny Srour
Varar i 1 time og 30 minutt
SPRÅK Arabisk, engelske tekstar/English surtitles

Filmkveld er arrangert i samarbeid med Det Norske Teatret som en del av “Palestinaprogrammet“, som foregår i forbindelse med oppsetningen av «Gjenferdet inn».
