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The Journey of Maryam by Sepideh Farsi,
Iran 2002 |
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| Synopsis: | ||||||||||||||
| The Journey of Maryam is a poignant and poetic piece exploring the nature of memory, longing, loss, and the people and places that make us who we are. Shot entirely from the vantage point of Maryam, the invisible heroine in search of her father, the film recalls the visual sophistication of Vertov or Farsi’s compatriot Kiarostami. However, in the end, a unique voice rises to the top befitting this intimate and personal journey through the neighborhoods, alleyways, and people of Tehran. In Farsi with English subtitles | ||||||||||||||
| Filmmaker’s Biography: | ||||||||||||||
| Sepideh Farsi was born in Tehran in 1965 and moved to Paris in 1984 to study Mathematics. But she soon found herself driven towards the visual arts. Selfthaught, she first experimented in photography, before turning to the cinema and writing two short films in the late 80’s, Red Shoes (1988) and Tango (1989), and later on Northwind (1993) and Water Dreams (1997). Her next film was Men of Fire (2001), a documentary on the firemen of Tehran. The Journey of Maryam distinctly marks out Sepideh Farsi's universe as it is a poetical no-man’s land between fiction and documentary and demarcates her cultural identity puzzle. She completed a second feature film Dreams of Dust in 2003 and is currently preparing her next feature The Return of Esfandyar. | ||||||||||||||
| Festivals and Awards: | ||||||||||||||
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Nouveaux Cinémas Festival, Montreal, 2003 • Alexandria Film Festival, 2003 • Journées de Cinéma de Montauban, 2003 |
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