Amidst the repressive reality of Iran, the story unfolds of a woman who creates an alternative world through the lens of her camera. Born in the year of the Islamic Revolution, she collects Super 8 films and personal recordings to capture moments of happiness and resistance. These fragments of everyday life, often hidden from the eyes of the regime, form a mosaic of inner freedom in an outer world of oppression. An encounter with an exiled professor gives an anonymous face in her archive an identity, while her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease drives her to fight against forgetting. The outbreak of the Jin-Jiyan-Azadî movement in the fall of 2022 becomes the turning point that inextricably intertwines the personal and political levels of her life. MY STOLEN PLANET (original title: SAYYAREYE DOZDIDE SHODEYE MAN) is a documentary diary by Iranian director Farahnaz Sharifi, which celebrated its world premiere in 2024 in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, where it won second place in the Panorama Audience Award. The film was awarded the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, qualifying it for an Oscar nomination. Other honors include the German Documentary Film Music Award for Atena Eshtiaghi at DOK.fest Munich and the Roman Brodmann Prize 2024. MY STOLEN PLANET has also been shown at numerous international festivals, including the Kassel Dokfest, the Vienna Festival, and the Freiburg Film Forum. The film offers a profound insight into the complex connection between personal experience and political reality in Iran.
Amidst censorship, an Iranian woman uses her camera to create an archive of hope, memory, and female strength.
Amidst the repressive reality of Iran, the story unfolds of a woman who creates an alternative world through the lens of her camera. Born in the year of the Islamic Revolution, she collects Super 8 films and personal recordings to capture moments of happiness and resistance. These fragments of everyday life, often hidden from the eyes of the regime, form a mosaic of inner freedom in an outer world of oppression. An encounter with an exiled professor gives an anonymous face in her archive an identity, while her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease drives her to fight against forgetting. The outbreak of the Jin-Jiyan-Azadî movement in the fall of 2022 becomes the turning point that inextricably intertwines the personal and political levels of her life.
MY STOLEN PLANET (original title: SAYYAREYE DOZDIDE SHODEYE MAN) is a documentary diary by Iranian director Farahnaz Sharifi, which celebrated its world premiere in 2024 in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, where it won second place in the Panorama Audience Award. The film was awarded the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, qualifying it for an Oscar nomination. Other honors include the German Documentary Film Music Award for Atena Eshtiaghi at DOK.fest Munich and the Roman Brodmann Prize 2024.
MY STOLEN PLANET has also been shown at numerous international festivals, including the Kassel Dokfest, the Vienna Festival, and the Freiburg Film Forum. The film offers a profound insight into the complex connection between personal experience and political reality in Iran.