COUNTRIES: Germany, Iran YEAR: 2024 RUN TIME: 82 min
DIRECTOR: Farahnaz Sharifi
LANGUAGE(S): Persian
SUBTITLE(S): German
SCRIPT: Farahnaz Sharifi
PRODUCTION: Anke Petersen, Lilian Tietjen, Farzad Pak
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Farahnaz Sharifi
EDITOR: Farahnaz Sharifi
MUSIC: Atena Eshtiaghi
SCREENINGS
SYNOPSIS
MY STOLEN PLANET tells the story of filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi, who was born in Iran in 1979 after the Islamic revolution, in diary form. At the age of seven, she realises that she lives in two worlds. In the world of the ayatollahs and in the world in which she dares to be herself.
Sharifi creates an alternative history of Iran from her own images and memories and from other people’s photographs rescued from bazaars: dancing becomes a gesture of resistance, solidarity stands up to oppression. Then, in autumn, the movement ‘Women! Life! Freedom!’, which marked a turning point in Sharifi’s life, as it did for many other Iranians. An inspiring film about the power of images and the fight against forgetting.
In cooperation with Woman, Life, Freedom – Nürnberg-Erlangen e.V.
Following the screening on Thursday, 17 October, producer Anke Petersen will be present for a film discussion. This will be followed by a concert by Iranian singer Shabnam Zamani and Jean de l’ Aire in the salon of the Künstlerhaus.
Farahnaz Sharifi
Farahnaz Sharifi is an Iranian author, director and editor who studied film at the University of Tehran and has been living in exile in Germany since the end of 2022. The filmmaker usually creates her documentaries based on archive material. For her most recent work as an editor, RADIOGRAPH OF A FAMILY, she was awarded both Best Editor and the ReFrame Award for the ‘particularly creative use of archive material’ at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2020. Her directorial work REVOLUTIONARY MEMORIES OF BAHMEN WHO LOVED LEILA won Best Short Film at the Uppsala Short Film Festival. Sharifi was also a jury member at IDFA 2020. In addition to her career as a filmmaker and editor, Farahnaz Sharifi is also a writer. She published her short story collection ‘Breathing in Open Air’ while still in Iran.
Moon’s Voice (2002), Destiny (2003), Iran According to Ads (2005), My Sad Face (2008), Revolutionary Memories of Bahman Who Loved Leila (2013), Profession: Documentarist; Segment „Farahnaz“ (2014), Missing (2016), My Stolen Planet (2024)
WEBSITE: https://www.mystolenplanet.film/
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: JYOTI Film, Pak Film
WORLD SALES: CATDocs
GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR: Little Dream Pictures