Flowers blooming in our throats
Everyday occupations, hands that dig in the earth, that cut, touch, squeeze. The sound of domestic spaces and their silence.
9'
Italy
IFFR 2021
How does one visualise an amorphous idea, one that has become abstract to the point of obscurity? Landscape, real and imagined, provides the backdrop for a visual narrative, while sound, intertwined with a self-narrated monologue, adds a third dimension to this specific portrayal. Newsha Tavakolian is detached from the real world and yet achingly affected by it. An experimental take on a reality intensified by the emotional flare of PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome).
IFFR 2021
- 20'
- Iran
- 2020
- Director
- Newsha Tavakolian
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- Iran
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2021
- Length
- 20'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Farsi
- Producer
- Newsha Tavakolian
- Sales
- Newsha Tavakolian
- Screenplay
- Newsha Tavakolian, Sahand Kheyrabadi
- Cinematography
- Peyman Shadmanfar
- Editor
- Pouya Parsamagham
- Sound Design
- Kamran Arash Nia
- Website
- https://newshatavakolian.com/
Also in this combined programme
Maat
A razor-sharp, playful impression of contemporary life, filled with personal stories and with activism dripping from its pores.
30'
United States
IFFR 2021
Manifesto
As an art school is subsumed by a culture of surveillance and administration, small gestures of resistance liberate the creative soul.
27'
Norway
IFFR 2021
- Director
- Newsha Tavakolian
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- Iran
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2021
- Length
- 20'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Farsi
- Producer
- Newsha Tavakolian
- Sales
- Newsha Tavakolian
- Screenplay
- Newsha Tavakolian, Sahand Kheyrabadi
- Cinematography
- Peyman Shadmanfar
- Editor
- Pouya Parsamagham
- Sound Design
- Kamran Arash Nia
- Website
- https://newshatavakolian.com/
Programme IFFR 2021
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
The power of short. Twenty-two films from the Short & Mid-length selection compete for one of three equal awards.
Still: Plant (879 pages, 33 days)
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An archaeologist returns to Normandy for a dig. There all her doubts, thoughts and memories meld.
28'
France
IFFR 2021
earthearthearth
Impressive, 35mm journey through the Andes is a hypnotic, sensory meditation on ‘our’ earth. Improvised music by Jason Sharp.
30'
Canada
IFFR 2021
Er is een geest van mij
An attempt at mourning futures that never arrived. We see urban ruins, consuming fires and microscopic images of bodily decay.
6'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021