2026 | Iran | Fiction

WOLFGANG

  • English, German, French, Persian 98 mins
  • Director | Saleh Kashefi (Filmsaaz)
  • Writer | Saleh Kashefi (Filmsaaz)
  • Producer | Saleh Kashefi, Thomas Jacquey, Leopold Helbich Frey

STATUS: Completed

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In this acid trip opera, the life of 22-year-old Mozart is reimagined to tell the present-day story of an Iranian artist exiled in Paris. Navigating grief, destructive tendencies and creative expression, the artists’ lives swirl together in a time and gender-queering ode to self-transformation. In 1778, a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in exile in Paris: reeling from his mother’s death, he spent his days writing scatalogical music and drowning in libertine excess. In this genre-defying ‘audiovisual opera’, Mozart’s life becomes a portal into that of Wolfgang, an Iranian artist navigating similar extremes as he too is exiled in Paris: the city where everyone says his dreams will come true, and praises him for escaping the censorship of his homeland.

Experimental Queer Dreamlike Identity Surreal
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