Signals: Inside Iran
Overzicht van films
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111 Girls
Nahid Ghobadi, Bijan Zamanpira | 79' | Iran | European premiere
111 Kurdish girls live in an area without marriageable men. They bring their problem to the president’s attention, threatening to commit collective su -
Acrophobia 0.1.
Anahita Hekmat | 9' | France | World premiere
Fragments of a fading memory are combined into a new experience. A work about time and memory. -
Conquest of Paradise
Hadi Fallahpisheh | 3' | Iran | European premiere
A split screen that, with the aid of icons such as basketball and red white and blue, illustrates the illusion of the American Dream. -
Damn Garbage
Hamed Safaee | 7' | Iran | None
In a residential complex in Tehran, a woman is stuck outside of her house and can’t get in. She seeks a way to enter. -
Darvag
Abolfazl Jalili | 100' | Iran | World premiere
A kind of bailiff, but the illegal kind. A loan shark. Not the most pleasant, safe or respected profession, but the Iranian student Yousef has… -
Dialogue with Open Eyes
Neda Razavipour | Iran | None
Silence. A woman looks straight into the camera. No words, but a very eloquent gaze. An installation about communication and the unspeakable. One of t -
Elephant in Darkness
Mohammad Shirvani | Iran | None
The maker of the Tiger Fat Shaker came to Rotterdam early so as to put together a scary box. A box with something slimy to… -
A Few Kilometers Away
Ebrahim Irajzad | 17' | Iran | World premiere
A 40-year-old woman reaches a shocking conclusion after her conversation with the young pregnant woman she offers a lift to. -
Find the Lost One
Neda Razavipour | Iran | None
A picture puzzle. On the left, a group of people hurry in and out of the metro. On the right, apparently the same picture. Why… -
From Tehran to London
Mania Akbari | 45' | Iran | International premiere
Akbari stopped shooting her film in Iran after several filmmakers were arrested. She edited her story about a married couple in crisis in London. Henc -
The Gardener
Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Iran | European premiere
The Bahá’í faith is one of artistic gardeners. They were driven out of Iran, their birthplace, and found a new home in Israel. What an… -
Good Childhood Days
Aliyar Rasti, Siavash Naghshbandi | 5' | Iran | World premiere
Back to the 1980s, when both directors grew up, while we hear a contemporary Iranian rock version of a children’s song from that decade.