Aahuti
A ritualised choreography of hands and simple objects above a section of soil offers a phenomenological journey to the essence of the cycle of life.
15'
India
IFFR 2020
Farid travelled from the easternmost tip of the Arabian Peninsula to the Iranian island of Qeshm to film the annual celebration of Nowruz Sayadeen (Fisherman's New Year). By importing Qeshm to the Sharjah Biennial, she sought to highlight the overlapping identity of Iran and the Gulf states, and specifically the Emirates.
IFFR 2020
- 16'
- Kuwait
- 2019
- Director
- Alia Farid
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Countries of production
- Kuwait, United Arab Emirates
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 16'
- Medium
- Digital
- Language
- Farsi
- Producer
- Mahmoud Sani
- Sales
- Galerie Imane Fares
- Cinematography
- Reza Abyat
- Editor
- Alia Farid, Cristian Manzutto
- Sound Design
- Cristian Manzutto
Also in this combined programme
Action, Almost Unable to Think
An ingenious visualisation of a real-life story, focusing on the inner world of this soldier, killed in an explosion while greeting a civilian.
11'
China
IFFR 2020
All Movements Should Kill the Wind
200 kilometres from Beijing, men live among rocks that wait to be hacked, cut and sanded. Once the stone monument is in place, nobody remembers these actions.
12'
France
IFFR 2020
Blue
How to overcome the locked-in syndrome of the computer screen? A meditative reflection on the urban jungle, with the colour blue as main protagonist.
5'
Germany
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Alia Farid
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Countries of production
- Kuwait, United Arab Emirates
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 16'
- Medium
- Digital
- Language
- Farsi
- Producer
- Mahmoud Sani
- Sales
- Galerie Imane Fares
- Cinematography
- Reza Abyat
- Editor
- Alia Farid, Cristian Manzutto
- Sound Design
- Cristian Manzutto
Programme IFFR 2020
Wait and See
Waiting for a film to start, it has already begun – in our mind. This programme cultivates the viewer’s patience, both in the cinema and outside.
Read more about this programme15 Days
A camera-shy film journalist decides to inflict an experiment on himself: to film himself for 15 days. Halfway through his ordeal he opens up.
90'
Japan
IFFR 2020
Aahuti
A ritualised choreography of hands and simple objects above a section of soil offers a phenomenological journey to the essence of the cycle of life.
15'
India
IFFR 2020
Absolute Beginners
Six gene-positive people share how they cope with the onset of Huntington's disease and how it affects their life – past, present and future.
42'
Belgium
IFFR 2020