Une collection documentaire créée par Afsun Moshiry
réalisée par Afsaneh Salari, Mohammadreza Farzad, Shirin Barghnavard, Mina Keshavarz, Pooya Abbasian, Azin Feizabadi
Collection
'Places – we owe them respect; they have a deeper meaning for us than just being there. They accompany us in silence. They shape our lives and our history. They are our stage.’ - Wim Wenders.
In the collective documentary programme ‘A Sense of Place’, six Iranian filmmakers tell stories of places in Iran or in exile. The programme is created by producer Afsun Moshiry in partnership with The Wim Wenders Foundation, and the films have been developed in close collaboration with Wim Wenders and Hella Wenders.
A SENSE OF PLACE
Genre : Collection documentaire
Année : 2023
Format : 6 courts-métrages
Créé par : Afsun Moshiry
Réalisé par : Afsaneh Salari, Mohammadreza Farzad, Shirin Barghnavard, Mina Keshavarz, Pooya Abbasian et Azin Feizabadi
Produit par : Afsun Moshiry, Hamidreza Pejman, Baptiste Bertin
En collaboration avec : La Fondation Wim Winders (Wim et Hella Wenders)
Avec le support de : Goethe Institut, Institut Français de Téréhan
Hollow
Mohammadreza Farzad / Germany, France, Iran / 2023 / 15 min
Hollow is an essayistic observation of life and death framed by a panopticon.
‘Hollow’ is a minimalistic reflection on how we are born, live and die in cells struggling to release. A struggle under an omniscient eye. Hollow is an associative and soul-searching journey passing through the troglodyte village of Meymand to a secret police prison turned into a museum, a rectangular pigeon house, to Ekbatan, a high-rise residential complex, ends up into Behesht-e Zahra of Tehran, the largest Cemetery in Iran. Hollow is a long gaze into a cabinet of mortalities, a wunderkammer keeping its mystery and malady hidden.
Density of Emptiness
Shirin Barghnavard, Shirin Barghnavard / Germany, France, Iran / 2023 / 19 min
An analysis of space in the city of Tehran from the perspective of some of the cities’ vulnerable women.
‘Density of Emptiness’ showcases the unbalanced density in the concept of place, the unbalanced division of space in the city of Tehran. A reality that the filmmaker exposes through a voice-over narration based on her research and by comparing photographs – taken ten years ago by an Iranian female photographer – of troubled women living in a semi-public shelter in a poor neighborhood in the south of Tehran in contrast to modern, empty high-rise buildings in the northern districts of the city.
Phobos
Mina Keshavarz / Germany, France, Iran / 2023 / 13 min
A City constantly threatened by war in a never-ending nightmare.
‘Phobos’ is a poetic and experimental short documentary that transcends the fear of war and destruction. Bushehr on the Persian golf builds a natural border to the sea. Mina Keshavarz grew up there. Her surrealistic picture of getting lost in a town known to her, looking for her home, family, and friends narrates her constant nightmare of an abandoned city.
Shadowless – In Transit
Azin Feizabadi / Germany, France, Iran / 2023 / 25 min
A dreamy and enigmatic film about facing your own shadow and stare back at it through the viewfinder of a camera.
‘A hybrid fiction-documentary film about a traveller from Iran whose shadow wants to make itself independent upon arrival in Germany. Facing it and gazing at the shadow with the help of his video camera, memories and flashbacks cut rhythmically into the traveller’s records of the present until a remix of his past and future occurs. All this in an in-between space, in a non-place, ‘In Transit’.
Maltournée
Pooya Abbasian, Pooya Abbasian / Germany, France, Iran / 2023 / 25 min
The post-industrial suburbs of Paris provide an atmospheric setting for a short film about a community of refugees outside the city.
’Maltournée’ is a short documentary about a missed rendez-vous with a community of refugees by the canal in Saint-Denis, France. A poetical observation of the traces of past lives left in the post-industrial landscape of the Paris suburbs.
Great are the Eyes of a dead Father
Afsaneh Salari / Germany, France, Iran / 2023 / 29 min
Loss and longing in a sensual tale of nostalgia for a place you’ve never really been to.
‘Density of Emptiness’ showcases the unbalanced density in the concept of place, the unbalanced division of space in the city of Tehran. A reality that the filmmaker exposes through a voice-over narration based on her research and by comparing photographs – taken ten years ago by an Iranian female photographer – of troubled women living in a semi-public shelter in a poor neighborhood in the south of Tehran in contrast to modern, empty high-rise buildings in the northern districts of the city.
Festivals
CPH DOX – World Premiere 2023
Beldocs 2023
Sheffield Int. Documentary Film Festival 2023
FeKK Ljubljana International Film Festival 2023
Kerala International Film Festival 2023
Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2023
Linz International Short Film Festival 2023
DMZ Docs 2023
Rome Independent Film Festival 2023
Dossier de presse
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La Onda productions
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