A film by Farahnaz Sharifi
Synopsis
“My Stolen Planet" is 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.
director
Farahnaz Sharifi is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker and film editor who moved to Germany at the end of 2022. She has graduated from Tehran University in Cinema studies. Her films are mostly based on archives and she uses archive images and film to tell her stories. 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 the Best feature length documentary Film Award IDFA 2020. Farahnaz has received many awards inside and outside of Iran including best film Award in Uppsala Short Film Festival. In addition, she was a jury member at IDFA 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.
"To overcome challenging situations, such as living under a repressive regime, sharing our stories can be a powerful tool to resistance."
JURY STATEMENT ROMAN BRODMANN PRIZE 2024:
MY STOLEN PLANET is personal, political and poetic - Farahnaz Sharifi
succeeds in creating a unique aesthetic combination of image montage,
linguistic narrative and music. The result is a resonating space that
conveys great sadness and at the same time allows the audience a frightening realisation and deep emotional involvement.
Farahnaz Sharifi
"Archive is memory. Without memory, you are not able to remember who you are."
PRODUCTION
Credits
Germany/Iran 2024
82 Min. Colour
Director: Farahnaz Sharifi
Screenplay: Farahnaz Sharifi
Cinematography: Farahnaz Sharifi
Editing: Farahnaz Sharifi
Music: Atena Eshtiaghi
Sound Design: Daniel Wulf
Sound: Farahnaz Sharifi
Producer: Anke Petersen, Lilian Tietjen & Farzad Pak
Executive Producer: Anke Petersen
Produktion: JYOTI Film Gmbh
Co-Production: PakFilm, Hamburg
FILMFESTIVAls
Second Panorama Audience Award
74.Berlinale Panorama - World Premiere
Awards
26. Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - International Premiere in international competion
German Documentary Music Award 2024 for
Atena Esthiaghi
48. HKIFF Hong Kong International Film Festival - Reality Bites
- Asian Premiere
Golden Alexander 26TIDF Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2024
FIPRESCI Award 26TIDF Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2024
Visions du Réel - Highlights - Swiss Premiere
Dokfest Munich - Filmmakers in Exile - Regional Premiere
Hot Docs - Persister - North American Premiere
Roman Brodmann Preis, Haus des Dokumentarfilms - Europäisches Medienforum
37. Bolzano International Film Festival Bozen - Italian Premiere
Taiwan International Documentary Filmfestival - Taiwanese Premiere
Beldocs IDFF - Survival is not enought section - Serbian Premiere
Innsbruck IFFI - Austrian Premiere
Bildrausch Filmfest Basel - Regional Premiere
71. Sidney Film Festival - Int. Documentary Strand - Australian Premiere
Audience Award Bolzano International Film Festival Bozen 2024
Audience Award and Next Generation Award
TIDF Taiwan 2024
Silver Apricot, Regional Competition Golden Apricot Film Festival Yerevan 2024
Golden Apricot Film Festival- Competition -
Armenian Premiere
MDOC Melgaco International Documentary Film Festival - Portugese Premiere
Jean-Loup Passek Award for Best International Feature Length Film - Melgaçao Documentary Film Festival 2024
Peter Liechti Award and Audience Award
Bildrausch Basel 2024
Martin Award Film Festival
Innsbruck 2024
Lemesos International Documentary Festival - Cyprus Premiere
Dokufest Prizren - Kosovo Premiere
Make Docs Skopje - Macedonia Premiere
Freistadt Festival der Neue Heimatfilm - Local Premiere Austria
Documentary Film Prize and Prize of the Youth Jury Festival_DER NEUE HEIMAT_film#37
Sofia DocuMental - Bulgarian Premiere
Busan IFF - South Korean Premiere
BFI London Film Festival - UK Premiere
Inconventient Films Documentary Festival - Lithuanian Premiere
Brussels Festival des Libertés - Belgian Premiere
Slovenska Kinoteka- Slovenian Premiere
Chicago International Film Festival - US Premiere
Westlake Int. Documentary Festival - Mainland Chinese Premiere
Duisburger Filmwoche - Local Premiere
Dresden MOVE IT! Festival - Local Premiere
ZINEBI Bilbao int. Film Festival - Spain Premiere
Astra Filmfestival - Rumanian Premiere
Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival - Regional Premiere
Middle East Now Festival Firenze - Italian Premiere
Silver Hugo Documentary Chicago International Film Festival
Best Director Award Astra Film Festival Official Selection
Youth Jury Award ZINEBI International Film Festival
10. Move it! Filmprize for Human Rights Dresden
Kassel Dokfest - Local Premiere
Doc NYC - New York Premiere
IDFA - Netherlands Premiere
FIDOCS Chile - South American Premiere
Boeld & Geluid ReFrame Award @IDFA
Best Film International Competition @FIDOCS Chile
14th int. Crime & Punishment Film Festival - Turkish Premiere
Les Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire - French Premiere
21. Verzió Film Festival - Hungarian Premiere
5th Orient Express Film Festival - Regional Premiere
Int. Golden Scale Feature Film Competition Award @ int. Crime and Punishment Filmfestival Istanbul
... and many more ...
CONTACT
International Sales
CAT&Docs
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Tel. +33 6 20 25 00 78
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Tel. +33 6 81 77 65 05
Women Make Movies
(US Distribution)
Information
Tel. +1 212 925 0606
Orders
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Production
Theatrical Distribution GERMANY
JYOTI Film GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
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mail@jyotifilm.de
www.jyotifilm.de
PakFilm GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Tel: +49 40 716 37 603
pakfilm.de
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Tel. +49 40 2853056-20
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