My Stolen Planet
Farahnaz Sharifi / IR, DE, 2024 / 82 min.
In her directorial debut, the filmmaker reflects on her life under the Iranian regime after 1979. The lives of countless strangers seep into her story through purchased home videos. Together, they create a single narrative about living in two worlds.
Filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi, born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, leads a double life. Under the strict regime of the country’s religious leaders, she realizes at age seven that there is one identity for at home and another in public. Since then, she has lived in two worlds, two different “planets”. In one, dancing is allowed, while in the other, it is forbidden. In one she wears a hijab, while in the other she doesn’t have to.
In this diary-style documentary, Sharifi reflects on her split life. In the leading role, she casts not only herself, her family and friends, but also countless strangers, whose lives seep into the story through home videos she has managed to find in Iran.
Sharifi edited and narrated the IDFA 2020 award-winning Radiograph of a Family, also based on archive material. In her own directorial debut My Stolen Planet, which has already picked up prizes at the Berlin and Thessaloniki festivals, we again hear her pleasant voice, this time narrating the story of the women of Iran for whom the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising in 2022 became a turning point in their lives.
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Director
Farahnaz Sharifi
Production year
2024
Country
IR, DE
Original title
Letters from Ms. Iran
Length
82 min.
Language
Persian
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
IDFA 2024
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