Ziba

  • 84'
  • Iran
  • 2012
Ziba is an upper-class housewife from Teheran who apparently has her life in order. Yet every day she is exhausted and feels paralysed in her daily routine. She can’t make it clear to anyone what exactly is wrong with her.
When the silent Ziba and her irritated husband make a stopover on their way to the sea, they lose each other. Ziba literally gets stuck in a recently completed building owned by her husband. She kills time listening to a father and his rebellious daughter, who confides some very personal things to her, unasked.
Director Bani Khoshnoudi does not so much make a portrait of Ziba, but shows through her character the suffocation experienced every day by many Iranians. Ziba is more a metaphor for the general state of oppression, alienation and imposed silence in today’s Iran, which is also referred to in the fragments of propaganda on TV and radio. Ziba results from the Cinéfondation Writing Residency at the Cannes Film Festival. Also see the Installation Scaffold for Signals: Inside Iran in More Than Film.
  • 84'
  • Iran
  • 2012
Director
Bani Khoshnoudi
Premiere
European premiere
Countries of production
Iran, France
Year
2012
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
84'
Medium
DCP
Language
Farsi
Producers
Bani Khoshnoudi, Christie Molia
Production Companies
Pensee Sauvage Films, Moteur s'il vous plait (MSVP)
Sales
Pensee Sauvage Films
Screenplay
Bani Khoshnoudi
Cinematography
Shahriar Assadi
Editor
Miguel Schverdfinger
Sound Design
Claire-Anne Largeron
Music
Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides
Cast
Neda Razavipour, Morteza Sokhangou
Website
http://www.penseesauvagefilms.com/ziba1.html
Director
Bani Khoshnoudi
Premiere
European premiere
Countries of production
Iran, France
Year
2012
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
84'
Medium
DCP
Language
Farsi
Producers
Bani Khoshnoudi, Christie Molia
Production Companies
Pensee Sauvage Films, Moteur s'il vous plait (MSVP)
Sales
Pensee Sauvage Films
Screenplay
Bani Khoshnoudi
Cinematography
Shahriar Assadi
Editor
Miguel Schverdfinger
Sound Design
Claire-Anne Largeron
Music
Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides
Cast
Neda Razavipour, Morteza Sokhangou
Website
http://www.penseesauvagefilms.com/ziba1.html