Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Disquieting, found-footage collage of heroic images of modern warfare – depictions that obscure the reality.
19'
Palestine
IFFR 2023
In 1979, following the Islamic Revolution, theatres across Iran were shut down, including the oldest, Tamashakhaneh Tehran, built in 1915. Filmmaker Shauheen Daneshfar explores its dusty, decaying interiors with 35mm film, reviving a past enriched with artistic expression and resistance through archival footage, choreographed re-enactments, and the memories of exiled and oppressed artists and performers. Scented Rooms is a powerful, poetic ode to a silenced history resoundingly present.
– Fiona Armour
IFFR 2023
- 30'
- Iran
- 2023
- Director
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Iran, Sweden
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 30'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- اتاق های عطری
- Language
- Persian
- Producers
- Shauheen Daneshfar, Marc Johnson
- Production Company
- Rum Film
- Sales
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Screenplay
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Cinematography
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Editor
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Music
- Mehdi Hesamizadeh
- Cast
- Kamran Vakilazad, Sonia Sanjari, Gilda Stillbäck
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Prosinečki
Archival poetic analysis of the aesthetics of football conceived through the image of Robert Prosinečki.
21'
Ireland
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Iran, Sweden
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 30'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- اتاق های عطری
- Language
- Persian
- Producers
- Shauheen Daneshfar, Marc Johnson
- Production Company
- Rum Film
- Sales
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Screenplay
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Cinematography
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Editor
- Shauheen Daneshfar
- Music
- Mehdi Hesamizadeh
- Cast
- Kamran Vakilazad, Sonia Sanjari, Gilda Stillbäck
Programme IFFR 2023
Short & Mid-length
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
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An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
3 Lieder
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2023
3 Peonies
Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023