During my first return to my motherland after my migration to France, a trajectory of the travel leads me to Shahda, the historic place of the encountering between Zoroastrisme and Islam. A crossing through the desert, connects the night to the day, darkness to light, the present to past and the movement to immobility. It's happening in an intermediate time during which the décor is inverted to incorporate a space out of time. An oneiric universe reappears between the visible space and a spectral world.

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In this documentary film the shopping process in the traditional Iranian Bazaar is a pretension for discovering the Iranian life relationships in an atmosphere full of colors , plainness and felling , without description for reproduction of scenes and events of their life

Among the clouds (Dar miane abrha) tells the story of Malek, an Iranian teenager working as a guide and luggage carrier at the Iraqi border, a turbulent area that appears to be quite calm, but soon will turn into the troublesome scenery of a wistful coming of age story. Actually, here the war is only present as a context; the real one takes place between Malek's feelings of love, trust, and longing. When a mysterious and beautiful woman named Noura (Elnaz Shakerdoost) needs help crossing the border to Iran with a coffin, Malek falls into that dreamlike state of the film's title, and the plot thickens. Rouhollah Hejazi's first feature juggles with the universal themes of love, adulthood, and the loss of innocence, which will also work as the emotional borders which Malek and Noura are constantly crossing towards each other, going back and forth between Iran and Iraq. The sounds filling up the screen - with an intensity that seems to pour right out of it - form a powerful and overwhelming soundtrack which covers with emotion the gaps the plot might have in terms of originality. The tables turn at the end, with a surprising and unexpected closing scene, in which the score overstresses a very touching and subtle finale.

After a dream in which he lost his vision, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Shirvani sought to explore the role of sight in cinema and organized filmmaking workshops for blind women. In this episodic compilation, seven Iranian women armed with digital cameras create intensely personal stories about their passions, familial bonds, and daily challenges. Together, they present new ways of observing blindness. 2008, video, in Farsi with English subtitles, 116 minutes.