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BALATAR AZ ABRHAYE ACIDI

By Ali ASGARI

SEVEN SPRINGS PICTURES - as DISTR / PROD

Documentary - Completed 2024

In a haunting, autobiographical essay, Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari questions what it means to be an artist, as censorship drains the color from his home city of Tehran, and from his life.

Festivals
& Awards

International Documentary Film Amsterdam 2024

Envision Competition

Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2024

Best of Docs

Torino International Film Festival 2024

Documentary Competition

Marrakech International Film Festival 2024

Documentary Competition

GOA International Film Festival 2024

Special Screening

Pune International Film Festival 2024

Non-competitive section

Luxembourg IFF 2024

Non-competitive section

Hot Docs IDFF 2024

World Showcase

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- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- IRAN, LUXEMBOURG
- Languages
- FARSI
- Duration
- 71 mn
- Director(s)
- Ali ASGARI
- Writer(s)
- Ali ASGARI, Ali SHAMS
- Producer(s)
- Ali ASGARI (Taat Films), Milad KHOSRAVI (Seven Springs Pictures)
- Synopsis
- After the premiere of his film Terrestrial Verses (co-directed by Alireza Khatami) in Cannes, Ali Asgari was banned from traveling. But filmmakers like Asgari are not easily deterred from practicing their art, despite unceasing repressive interference. In stubborn resistance to his growing pessimism about the way his city is developing, Asgari shows his dreams and reflections in countless apocalyptic shades of gray. He muses about his mother’s native language, about his sisters who could never see his films in the cinema, and about Rome, where he lived for ten years. But above all, the filmmaker longs to go outside and fly above the city at a height from which all people are equal. He is left with his memories and imaginations, the only things that cannot be confiscated.