Razeh-del راز دل
Iran/United Kingdom/Italy | 2024 | DCP 2K | Color | 28’ | o.v. Farsi
World premiere: 77th Locarno Film Festival, Pardi di Domani
Synopsis:
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran's first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
The dense layerings of inky newsprint and appropriated footage in Maryam Tafakory’s Razeh-del retell the history of Zan, Iran’s first women’s newspaper, whose brief run in the late 1990s inspires two schoolgirls to propose a film of their own. Amid intensely saturated fields of amethyst, crimson, and amber, images of women emerge and dissolve, smothered in inscriptions quoting angry responses from male readers and words of support from women who dream of an impossible cinema. [NYFF]
Screenings:
77th Locarno Film Festival, Pardi di Domani [link]
Nominated for the European Film Award
62nd New York Film Festival, NYFF [link]
68th BFI London Film Festival
43rd Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF [link]
69th Cork International Film Festival
51st Film Fest Gent
43rd Uppsala Short Film Festival
27th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)
62nd Viennale