1963 (20’)

Iran

Director: Forough Farrokhzad

For her first film, Forough Farrokhzad went straight to the most unwatchable: leprosy, lepers. And if was needed the gaze of a woman, if is always needed the look of a woman to establish the right distance with suffering and hideousness, without complacency and self-pity, her gaze still transformed her subject, and by bypassing the abominable trap of the symbol, succeed in binding, besides the truth, this leprosy to all the leprosies of the world.

FESTIVALS

• Locarno FF, Switzerland
• Venice FF, Italy
• The New York FF, USA
• IFFR, The Netherlands
• International Documentary FF Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Viennale, Austria

Forough Farrokhzad (1935-67) is widely regarded as one of most influential modernist poets of 20th century Iran, articulating the innermost world of women, breaking social and cultural taboos. Her published works include The Captive, The Wall, Rebellion, Reborn, and Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season. Recruited by pioneer of auteur cinema and intellectual Ebrahim Golestan to work in his studio, she directed one film before her promising career tragically ended in a fatal car accident at the age of 32.

Original language:
Farsi

Editor:
Forough Farrokhzad

Cinematographer:
Soleiman Minassian

Producer:
Golestan Film Studio