Brussels, behind the closed doors of a classroom. Using a textbook dating from the Islamic revolution, the director learns how to read and write in Persian, her mother tongue. Gradually, the didactic method of the lessons evolves into a poetic, visual collage, which introduces the notion of freedom and questions the meaning of a revolution.
Production: CVB
Co-production: CBA, RTBF
With the support of the Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Beursschouwburg Brussels, VOO, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Commission communautaire française (Cocof)
2016:
One World Romania International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Bucharest,
Romania, 03/16
FIFEQ-Festival Ethnographique du Québec, Canada, 03/16
Fest International du Cinéma iranien en exil, Paris, France, 05/16
Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones, Spain, 06/16
2015:
International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 01/15
IAWART Festival, New Dheli, India, 03/15
FIFOG, Switzerland, 03/15
Trenton Film Society, USA, 04/15
IndieLisboa, Portugal, 05/15
Panorama des Cinémas Iraniens, Paris, France, 06/15
Art en exil, France, 06/15
Festival Sole Luna, Palermo, Italy, 07/15
Fronteira – International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Brazil, 08/15
Split Film Festival, Croatia, 09/15
Rencontres Ad Hoc, France, 09/15
Festival de Bergen, Norway, 09/15
RISC–Marseille, France, 11/15
International Film Festival of the Curitiba Biennial, Brazil, 11/15
Filmer à Tout Prix, Bruxelles, Belgium, 11/15
Festival ACME, France, 11/15
Watch Docs, Human Rights In Film IFF, Warsaw, Poland, 12/15
2014:
FID, Marseille, France, 07/14 – Mention Spéciale du Prix Georges de Beau-regard
Kaunas International Film Festival, Lithuania, 09/14
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (FIFF), Belgium, 10/14
Traces de vies, France, 11/14,
Prix de la Création
Festival dei Popoli, Italy, 11/14
Escales Documentaires de la Rochelle, France, 11/14
Festival International d’Amiens, France, 11/14
Festival International du FIlm Oriental de Genève (Switzerland) – Mention spéciale pour sa poésie 2015
Festival Sole Luna (Italy) – Prix du Pont entre les cultures
Traces de Vies (France) – Prix de la création 2014
FID Marseille (France) – Mention Spéciale du Prix Georges de Beau-regard 2014
