MON PIRE ENNEMI – MY WORST ENEMY
Mehran Tamadon | France, Switzerland 2023 | 81 min. | Persian with English subtitles
SUNDAY, 19.05. | 9:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
In presence of Mehran Tamadon
Director Mehran Tamadon invites exiled actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi to take part in an experiment. He asks her to take on the role of an agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran and interrogate him as a dissident. The role play of psychological blackmail and torture pushes both to their limits. And Ebrahimi’s own experiences also push the boundaries between acting and lived experience.
Through re-enactment, Tamadon finds a key to understanding the other side. MON PIRE ENNEMI becomes an intense film experience about the psychological consequences of torture and the threat of an oppressive regime. As such, the film itself becomes an emancipative act of resistance against political oppression.
Director: Mehran Tamadon
Cinematography: Patrick Tresch
Editing: Mehran Tamadon, Luc Forveille
Sound: Laurent Malan
Production: L’Atelier Documentaire
BIOGRAPHY
Graduated as an architect, Mehran Tamadon directed Behesht Zahra, Mothers of Martyrs in 2004, then Bassidji in 2010, in which he attempted to dialogue with the defenders of the Iranian regime. He continued this approach with Iranian, where he convinced supporters of the regime to live in cohabitation with him. His new films, My Worst Enemy and Where God Is Not, presented at the Berlinale in 2023, deal with the violence of interrogation and detention in Iran.
