My Stolen Planet

In the organizer's words:

Director Farahnaz Sharifi combines her own and other people's amateur footage to create a diary-like film essay that tells of resistance and protest by women in Iran. In the private cine films from the period since the Islamic revolution in 1979, which Sharifi archives selectively, it becomes clear how celebrations and dances, the joy in private, can always also be acts of lived freedom, in which the prohibitions of authorities remain ineffective. With the availability of cell phone cameras, amateur recordings are now even suitable for directly documenting state injustice. Although Farahnaz Sharifi is no longer in Tehran during the protests following the death of Jina Amini, many others are virtually taking over her mission. Her photographs complete the powerful panorama of female resilience and political resistance in the present.