My Stolen Planet

by Farahnaz Sharif
A personal and timely exploration of life for women in Iran, following Farah as her experiences of love and defiance highlight the tension between joy and state oppression
2024  ·  1h22m  ·  Germany, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Farsi
English subs
About the Film

Oppressed by governmental restrictions that prevent her human rights, movement and autonomy, an Iranian filmmaker is forced to emigrate “inwards” and finds freedom in recording herself dancing and singing at home as an act of resistance. Using a personal diary-style narrative, Farah Sharifi traces her birth in post-revolution Iran to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and her precious collection of vintage Super-8 films that capture a fleeting period of freedom in Iran when men and women danced together and enjoyed carefree moments of joy. She blends her found-film archive of the past with footage of the present, which she refers to as “my planet,” to create an alternate history of Iran. When documentary filmmakers are arrested in Iran in 2022, and her own collection of joyful film clips is seized by the police while she is in Germany on an artist residency, she must face the possibility of never returning to Iran. “Sometimes we lose our lives for recording in the battle of memory and forgetting.”

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Producer
Anke Petersen
Producer
Lilian Tietjen
Co-Producer
Farzad Pak
About the Director

Farahnaz Sharif

Farahnaz Sharifi is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker and film editor who was forced to go into exile at the end of 2022. She has graduated from Tehran University in Cinema studies. Her films are mostly based on archives and she uses archive images and film to tell her stories. Farahnaz is also a well known film-editor in Iran. Her recent work as an editor is an acclaimed feature length documentary film “Radiograph of a Family” which won the Best feature length documentary Film Award IDFA 2020. Farahnaz has received many awards inside and outside of Iran including best film Award in Uppsala Short Film Festival and Fajr Film Festival in Iran. In addition, she was a jury member at IDFA 2021. Beside her career as a filmmaker and editor, she is also a writer and her book of short stories “Breathing in Open Air” has been published in Iran.

 
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