All About My Sisters
A searing portrait of Jin, filmed by her sister. Abandoned as a baby, Jin, now a young woman, faces multi-generational family trauma.
174'
USA
IFFR 2021
Farid is a forty-something kidult − flabby, balding and unmarried. His brother emigrated to the United States twenty years ago. Farid lives with his mother who doesn’t trust him with her cheque book, but tolerates his apathy and even allows him to buy a car so he can keep up the illusion of being a man of the world. In spite of their constant squabbling, Farid is shocked by her sudden death, and then consumed by loneliness. He makes awkward attempts at contact with a neighbour and women he meets on the street.
Following a long series of Iranian films by male directors about helpless women, Noushin Meraji here reverses the roles. Her protagonist’s psychology is a curious mix of cluelessness, pride, vulnerability, strategic lying and rancour. In the final analysis, however, this at times funny character study is all about compassion. For the Farids of this world, life simply proves too complex to navigate.
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
A special edition of Bright Future in which each programmer presents a fresh feature debut from the cutting edge of filmmaking.
Still: Phoenix
Read more about this programmeA searing portrait of Jin, filmed by her sister. Abandoned as a baby, Jin, now a young woman, faces multi-generational family trauma.
174'
USA
IFFR 2021
The sensation of being overwhelmed by nature shot in aesthetic black and white. With an undercurrent of spiritual connectedness.
79'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021
Poetic film essay on Syria – a country that for many now only exists in memories, or dreams.
83'
Canada
IFFR 2021