2025 | Iran, United States, France | Documentary

Noghteh-e-Goriz (The Vanishing Point)

  • English English 104 mins
  • Director | Bani Khoshnoudi
  • Writer | Bani Khoshnoudi
  • Producer | Bani Khoshnoudi, Janja Kralj

STATUS: Released

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Abandoned houses, surviving objects that carry memory. Exiled from Iran after her film on the 2009 Green Movement was banned, a filmmaker breaks her family’s decades-long silence about a disappeared cousin, executed during the 1988 purges in Iran’s political prisons. Grappling with estrangement and loss, she uses fragments, archives, and the images made during her years of diaristic filming in Iran to reflect on the collective taboo, the fear that silenced the population for so many years, and the explosion of resistance that continues to grow within Iranian society today.

filmmaker silence cousin disappearance execution purges prisons estrangement loss fragments archives
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