Synopsis
The daughter of a secular father and a pious mother tells the story of how they co-exist under one roof. Through photographs and fictional conversations, we discover the change in the family during the years of the Iranian revolution. Using her own childhood as the centre of the narrative, the filmmaker’s family story reflects the political events of the time and depicts the intriguing puzzle that constitutes modern Iranian identity.
A word from Tënk
A wedding with only a photograph of the groom, a child drawing the missing pieces of a torn picture of her mother, a house that gradually becomes the shell of the happy home it once was: these are only a few of the captivating moments in Khosravani’s poetic and deeply personal documentary. At first glance, this masterfully crafted film is about a family torn apart as a result of the 1979 revolution, but in fact it goes deep into the heart of a country’s century-long internal conflict: the baffling intricacies of an Iranian contemporary identity at the intersection of religious traditionalism and modernity. Khosravani’s diligent effort in reproducing the atmosphere of the 70’s and 80's has resulted in a meticulous and poetic audiovisual mosaic that tells a story within a story: the enduring love of an unlikely couple, and a nation rapidly moving towards an ideological revolution.The narrator represents a generation that grew up in pre and post revolutionary Iran. A generation that was forced to balance and reconcile many conflicting realities, and personifies the complexities of what it means to be an Iranian today.
Danae Elon
Filmmaker
