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ZIBA

(fiction feature – to be shot in Tehran)


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.

*Currently in development at the Cinéfondation Writing Residency of the Cannes Film Festival
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(DIS) PLACE

(experimental documentary feature)


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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THE LAST IMAGE

(fiction feature – to be shot in Tehran)


A return… a reconciliation…memory of the past, of revolution, of separation. Azadeh, a 40 year-old Iranian woman returns to Iran after 30 years in exile. Recently fallen ill, she goes back to the country she left, to reconcile with her past and to close a circle of some sorts. Her reunion with her father and with her birth city are part of her effort to cope with her illness and the harsh memories she keeps deep within herself. Using a mixture of fiction and documentary techniques, and important archival footage, this film is a journey into the mind and the memory of one woman, symbolically carrying the weight of her country’s past within herself.
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GETATCHEW AND THE EX

(feature documentary - to be shot in the Netherlands and Ethiopia)


When the Dutch punk band, The Ex, travels to Ethiopia to play a series of free concerts, they not only meet an enthralled public, but also seek out the legendary saxophonist, Getatchew Mekurya. After extending an invitation to him to play his music in Holland, the 73-year-old saxophonist suggests that they play together. What follows is a unique collaboration, based on an open exchange of music and ideas, and a freethinking spirit.


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