82 min.
2024
N-13
Persian, German languages
Lithuanian, English subtitlesA webcam dialogue between Berlin and Isfahan: Faraz Fesharaki documents conversations with his family over 10 years. Politics, news and dreams are constantly interspersed with conversations full of everyday details, interweaving realities that exist in different geographic spaces. How to create proximity in the face of the Internet’s intermittent connectivity? Archival footage and literary interludes complement the conversational mise-en-scenes to create a documentary essay close to the form of a diary, which is best summed up by the words of the Kiarostami-like dad: “To make a film, you don’t have to look for anything special, you just have to look around you. What is so close that it has become invisible?”
Faraz Fesharaki
Born in Iran and based in Berlin. While studying dramatic literature and film at Tehran University of Art, he took part in workshops with Abbas Kiarostami. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? by Alexandre Koberidze was his graduation film as a cinematographer. In 2021, he shot Sara Summa’s second feature Arthur & Diana. Was hast du gestern geträumt, Parajanov? is his first feature-length film as a director.
