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Iranian Director Farahnaz Sharifi Brings Memories to Life With ‘My Stolen Planet’: ‘The Achive Is a Part of My Soul, Part of My Body, Part of My Life’
Women dancing, women singing, women burning their hijab: These acts of defiance shape Iranian filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi’s feature-length debut.
Using the essayistic style of a diary, “My Stolen Planet” presents the joy and vivaciousness in contrast with the regimented oppression in Tehran using both the director’s personal archives and 8mm recordings of strangers’ lives. Around 2018, she thought of including strangers’ archives in a feature-length project to show how people can still live more freely, dance, and enjoy togetherness like in the pre-revolution times, in the safe confinement of their homes. Working with the past and memories as raw material also implies a certain kind of duality, but unlike the split between personal and public life in Iran, that one reaches out to the future.
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