Razeh-del راز دل

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:

1. 77th Locarno Film Festival, Pardi di Domani [link]
2. Nominated for the European Film Award
3. 62nd New York Film Festival, NYFF [link]
4. 68th BFI London Film Festival
5. 49th Hong Kong International Film Festival
6. 43rd Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF [link]
7. 69th Cork International Film Festival
8. 51st Film Fest Gent [link]
9. 43rd Uppsala Short Film Festival
10. 27th Montreal International Documentary Festival [link]
11. 14th Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
12. 31st l'Alternativa Independent Film Festival, Barcelona [link]
13. 26th International Izmir Short Film Festival
14. 28th International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
15. Lo Schermo dell’Arte
16. 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival
17. 22nd True/False
18. 62nd Viennale [link]