DC Festival of Films from Iran

My Stolen Planet

Part found footage documentary, part personal diary, Farahnaz Sharifi's film traces the recent history of women's lives in Iran. Footage collected in secret shows joyous, prerevolution-and now illegal-gatherings. Film and photography highlight the heroism of the Women, Life, Freedom movement. And Sharifi shares her personal sorrow as her mother succumbs to Alzheimer's. In the end, the danger she’s put herself in by working on the film itself inspires her to make a life-changing decision. According to Sharifi, the title of her film came "from the dual life we lead in Iran: There's their planet and then there’s our planet." Amber Wilkinson (Screen Daily) calls My Stolen Planet "an intimate celebration of everyday resistance in modern Iran [that shows] how the very act of filming becomes an act of resistance."

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