2024 | Germany, Iran | Documentary

Sayyareye Dozdide Shodeye Man (My Stolen Planet)

  • Persian 82 mins
  • Director | Farahnaz Sharifi
  • Writer | Farahnaz Sharifi
  • Producer | Anke Petersen, Lilian Tietjen, Farzad Pak

STATUS: Released

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My Stolen Planet is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression. Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn’t know. Relying on these recordings from other people, she gains a new perspective on losing memories. Her connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds a name and a story to one of the faces in her archive. Farah’s mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, motivates her to continue her fight against forgetting. In the autumn of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom uprising becomes a turning point in Farah’s life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran. This is a homemade history.

Narrative Life Freedom Oppression Recording Memories Alzheimer
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