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Faraz Fesharaki

What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov? (Was hast du gestern geträumt, Parajanov?)

Director Faraz Fesharaki Composer Rahi Sinaki Cast Faraz Fesharaki, Hasan Fesharaki, Mitra Kia
82' - 2024 - Documentary - Format: DCP - Dialogue: German, Farsi
Faraz Fesharaki builds bridges between Germany and Iran with an inventive and heartwarming feature debut, documenting conversations with his family & friends over 10 years. The pixellated webcam exchanges are filled with concerns, dreams and recipes. Near or far, you won’t exit the screening without thinking of your own family.

For ten years, Iranian filmmaker Faraz Fesharaki documented his exchanges with his family and friends. In 2021, Fesharaki was responsible for the photography of Alexander Koberidze's film What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? but his visual talents are used differently in his feature debut, as the film consists largely of recorded video calls. The picture is grainy and the sound lags - the distance between Berlin and Isfahan is not always easy to bridge. And yet, love always wins out over pixelation. The political context of their situation also seeps through. But is it really the distance and technological barriers that complicate their conversations? There may be chatter about movies, dreams and memories but how do you tell your mother you are in love? How do you tell your cousin you miss him?

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Credits

Directors

Faraz Fesharaki

Composers

Rahi Sinaki

Cast

Faraz Fesharaki, Hasan Fesharaki, Mitra Kia

Director of Photography

Faraz Fesharaki, Shahab Fotouhi, Moritz Friese

Editors

Faraz Fesharaki

Producers

Luise Hauschild, Ewelina Rosinska, Mariam Shatberashvili

Production studios

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)

More info

Dialogue

German, Farsi

Countries of production

Germany

Year

2024

Filmography

Faraz Fesharaki
It’s a Criminal Waste to Give This Film a Postproduction (short, 2017), What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov? (2024)

Technical Specs

Format
DCP