My Stolen Planet
Germany, Iran2024documentary82'Marcel Łoziński Documentary Award
A diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression. Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn't know. Relying on others' recordings, she gains a new perspective on losing memories. Her connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds a name and story to one of her archive's faces. Farah's mother, suffering from Alzheimer's, motivates her to fight against forgetting. In the fall of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom uprising became a turning point in Farah's life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran. This is a homemade history.
- directed by
- Farahnaz Sharifi
An award-winning filmmaker and film editor who lives in Iran but was recently forced to go into exile end of 2022. She has graduated from Tehran University in Cinema studies. Her films are mostly based on archives and she tells her story with archives. Farahnaz is also a well known film-editor in Iran. Her recent work as an editor is an acclaimed feature length documentary film “Radiograph of a Family” which won Best feature length documentary Film Award at IDFA 2020 and Award for creative use of archive in IDFA 2020. Farahnaz has received many awards inside Iran and outside Iran including best film Award in Uppsala Short Film Festival and Fajr Film Festival in Iran. In addition, she was a jury member at IDFA Film Festival 2021. Beside her career as a filmmaker and editor, she is also a writer and her book of short stories "Breathing in Open Air" has been published in Iran.
- cinematography
- Farahnaz Sharifi
- script
- Farahnaz Sharifi
- music
- Atena Eshtiaghi
- editing
- Farahnaz Sharifi
- production
- Farzad Pak, Anke Petersen, Lilian Tietjen
- Photo
