Farahnaz Sharifi

The documentary "Iran in Announcements", a research documentary about announcements in Iran, is from the early years of the announcement of Iran to the arrival of the Islamic Revolution.

Once we begin to consider certain people, items, or memories as our own, we lay ourselves open to the threat that we’ll lose them. Once the loss actually occurs, our mental image of the lost thing doesn’t disappear – on the contrary – it intensifies. This documentary, inspired by the stories of missing people in Iranian newspapers, searches for people who have disappeared for various reasons, but their tracks still resonate. A wide spectrum of archival materials offers a variety of answers to the question of how the absent can remain present, while live images of grieving loved ones then act as an appeal to all those who would brush off this painful ambivalence.

Farah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people’s memories in form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.

Documentary about legendary singer Ghamar-ol-Molook Vaziri.

No synopsis available yet.

It is 1978. Tehran is in bloodshed. The young Bahman falls in love with Leila, the sister of his martyred friend. Unrest in the streets, unrest in the hearts.

The documentary "Iran in Announcements", a research documentary about announcements in Iran, is from the early years of the announcement of Iran to the arrival of the Islamic Revolution.

The documentary "Iran in Announcements", a research documentary about announcements in Iran, is from the early years of the announcement of Iran to the arrival of the Islamic Revolution.

Once we begin to consider certain people, items, or memories as our own, we lay ourselves open to the threat that we’ll lose them. Once the loss actually occurs, our mental image of the lost thing doesn’t disappear – on the contrary – it intensifies. This documentary, inspired by the stories of missing people in Iranian newspapers, searches for people who have disappeared for various reasons, but their tracks still resonate. A wide spectrum of archival materials offers a variety of answers to the question of how the absent can remain present, while live images of grieving loved ones then act as an appeal to all those who would brush off this painful ambivalence.

Farah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people’s memories in form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.

Farah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people’s memories in form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.

Documentary about legendary singer Ghamar-ol-Molook Vaziri.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

It is 1978. Tehran is in bloodshed. The young Bahman falls in love with Leila, the sister of his martyred friend. Unrest in the streets, unrest in the hearts.

It is 1978. Tehran is in bloodshed. The young Bahman falls in love with Leila, the sister of his martyred friend. Unrest in the streets, unrest in the hearts.

In this absorbing film, seven independent female Iranian documentary makers take us into their personal and professional world, in an Iran that continues to be punctured by political, social and economic crises. What becomes clear over seven autobiographical chapters, is that choosing to become a documentary maker in Iran is a brave decision, often placing your liberty in danger. These women are driven by the need to document their world, and the forces that continue to restrict their movement and freedom. Whether it is making a film about department stores in Tehran featuring mannequins with severed heads and breasts, or the women singers they used to love as children, who have been banned from radio and TV since the revolution, or the huge swell of hope that comes with each election, these directors provide a rare and incisive view inside contemporary Iran, a country they continue to love, even as they will it to change.