200 Cigarettes from Now
Fleeting impressions from the lives of two friends at the fragile time when nothing is set in stone and everything is still possible.
45'
China
IFFR 2021
Thick pipes cut across the rocky desert in photos from British Petroleum’s archive. In parallel to the infrastructure for oil production in southern Iran, the company also created an extensive image archive. Film and photographs not only recorded industrial development, but also the workers and society. Oil and progress are inextricably intertwined in these images. Later on, a network of cinemas was created, providing modern entertainment to the population.
Sanaz Sohrabi edits, superimposes and comments on these historic images, relating a different history, one which shows the effects monopolisation and natural resource extraction had on the internal political situation. It also shows how, ultimately, the system created to produce and disseminate these images was ultimately reclaimed by the developing anti-colonial film movement: the Iranian New Wave.
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
Just as long as it takes. IFFR puts the mid-length film, experimental and artists’ short films and narrative-driven short stories in the spotlight.
Still: Bare Bones
Read more about this programmeFleeting impressions from the lives of two friends at the fragile time when nothing is set in stone and everything is still possible.
45'
China
IFFR 2021
A young woman embarks on a quest to understand the story of Senegalese symbol of resistance, Aline Sitoe Diatta.
27'
Switzerland
IFFR 2021
Two park rangers introduce us to the rapidly changing landscape in Aasivissuit, West Greenland.
23'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021