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ZIBA

(fiction feature – shot in Tehran / currently in post-production)


Ziba, a middle-class woman in her forties, is having trouble with her husband, Farhad. Communication is tense between them, and they have decided to make a trip to a vacation home on the Caspian Sea to talk about things. The couple drives away from their home in a rich neighborhood of Northern Tehran towards the outskirts of the city. They have to make one stop; Farhad needs to take care of some real-estate business before they leave the city. What develops during that day is unexpected, and Ziba finds herself in a situation that she could not have imagined. Social and class divisions, as well as the complex and varied urban landscape of Tehran are the focus of this film.

* Cinéfondation Writing Residency of the Cannes Film Festival
* Fondation Groupama Gan Production Fund
* Fonds Sud Cinema

 

pensee displace

(DIS) PLACE


(experimental documentary feature / in development)


An exploration of a psychological state of displacement through a fragmented journey spreading across a number of continents, urban centers, border areas, detention camps and lost places. This film uses Super 8, 16mm and video to document, locate, map, and pinpoint the indeterminable space of dislocation and displacement lived differently by exiles, migrants, boat peoples and refugees. A poem of sorts, exploring zones that are maybe fabricated points in our imagination.






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