Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man
My Stolen Planet
Farahnaz Sharifi,
2024,
82’
Farah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people's memories in the form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.
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“The separation between ‘you’ and ‘they’ is key in the way she describes it as a situation where ‘you have your values, your relations, while they have a different understanding of all these things. That’s why they ask us to forget the past and make their own history.’ As such, history becomes a highly contested notion.”
Savina Petkova1
- 1Savina Petkova, “Iranian Director Farahnaz Sharifi Brings Memories to Life With ‘My Stolen Planet’: ‘The Archive Is a Part of My Soul, Part of My Body, Part of My Life’,” Variety, March 2024.
