City of Poets

Name: City of Poets
Start: 2024-06-01UTC16:15
Location: CINETECA - Plató

Sara Rajaei

Netherlands

2024

Spanish Premiere

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Synopsis

Through a collage of photographs and personal file footage, a story emerges of a metaphorical city in Iran where all the streets are named after poets. A rich photo archive with a markedly feminist slant, where the everyday and the autobiographical are blended together with the historical, the remembered and the imagined, leading us to the experience of an 8-year long war. A skillfully-crafted historical fiction about the transition of a utopian city, whose inhabitants recited poetry every day as they make their way through streets that were later named after war martyrs, thus giving rise to the arrival of ghosts. (RS)

Festivals

2024 - Berlinale - Berlinale Shorts

Director biography

Sara Rajaei

Sara Rajaei is an Iranian-Dutch video artist and filmmaker based in The Netherlands. In her work, she studies the notion of time by reflecting on the absence of image, memory psychology, oral history, narrative techniques, and physical/psychological space. Her artistic oeuvre consists of short films and video installations, which remain in-between storytelling and imagery. After her graduation from the Royal Academy of Art The Hague in 2002, Rajaei attended a 2-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam. In 2009, she was shortlisted for the Prix de Rome. She is currently developing her first feature film with support of the funding scheme The Imagination (De Verbeelding) of Netherlands Film Fund.

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