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Razeh-del

by Maryam Tafakory
Iran, UK, Italy, 2024, 28′
Presented at the 17th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2024
Produced by Lo schermo dell’arte with Seven Gravity Collection with the support of VISIO Production Fund
Screenplay, editing, sound: Maryam Tafakory
Producer: Leonardo Bigazzi
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
Maryam Tafakory (Shiraz, Iran) works with film and performance. Solo screenings and exhibitions of her work include: MoMA, New York; BOZAR, Brussels; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Academy Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; e-flux, New York; and LUX London, among others. Selected group events include: Tate Modern, London; Cannes’ Directors Fortnight, Cannes; New York Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival; Villa Medici, Rome; HKW Berlin, Berlin; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; and Anthology Film Archives, New York. She was awarded the Gold Hugo at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival; the Tiger Short Award at the 51st Rotterdam IFF; and the Best Experimental Film Award at the 70th and 71st Melbourne International Film Festival. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Jarman Award.
Selected Filmography
2024 Razeh-del; 2023 Mast-del; 2022 Nazarbazi; 2021 Irani bag; 2017 I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin; 2016 Absent Wound; 2015 Poem and Stone; 2014 Fragments of a Letter; 2014 Taklif