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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Razeh-del (راز دل)
Maryam Tafakory
Iran, Italy, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Maryan Tafakory scours the memory of her country again, a memory that has been outlawed, hidden and buried. But the archival images are there to prove it was not always that way, and remembering itself is also an exercise in dissidence. Amidst so much ruin, Tafakory recalls the utopian dream of filmmaking and getting published in a feminist newspaper as she shows us the fragility of the materials. And yet, she tells us that even if the celluloid should perish, the energy that feeds the images cannot. (LEP)
Festivals
2024 - Locarno Film Festival - Pardi di Domani
2024 - NYFF - New York Film Festival - Currents
2024 - BFI London Film Festival
2024 - Cork International Film Festival
2024 - Viennale - Short Film Programme
Director biography
Maryam Tafakory
Maryam Tafakory, born and raised in Iran, works with film and performance. Solo screenings/exhibitions of her work include MoMA (New York), BOZAR (Brussels), National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), Academy Museum (Los Angeles), Museum of the Moving Image (New York), and LUX London, among others. Selected group events include Tate Modern (London), Cannes’ Directors Fortnight, New York Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival or BFI London Film Festival.
She was awarded the Gold Hugo at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival, the Tiger Short Award at the 51st Rotterdam IFF, the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Best Experimental Film Award at the 70th and 71st Melbourne International Film Festival. She was the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.
Images gallery
Finished
Sessions
May
Saturday 10
17:00 h
CINETECA - Plató
Credits
Language
Farsi - Subtitles in spanish and english
Director
Maryam Tafakory
Production
Maryam Tafakory
Editing
Maryam Tafakory
Sound
Maryam Tafakory
Music
Stefan Smiths
