MANZAREH, MOALAGH – LANDSCAPE SUSPENDED
Naghmeh Abbasi | Iran, Canada 2022 | 27 min. | Farsi, Kurdish with English subtitles
MONDAY, 20.05. | 5 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
PART OF THE SHORT FILM PROGRAMME ISA I
Austrian premiere
If we understood the language of nature, what would it tell us? The camera moves quietly over the Zagros Mountains and with it our gaze. An attempt to elicit the story of Mount Shaho in Kurdistan, Iran. MANZAREH, MOALAGH is a film as examination that unfolds along the protocol of an interrogation and seeks to create spatial justice for the nomadic people of the Havar Neshins.
Director: Naghmeh Abbasi
Cinematography: Siavash Yazdanmehr, Naghmeh Abbasi
Editing: Naghmeh Abbasi
Sound: Faraz Anoushahpour
Production: Naghmeh Abbasi
SCREENINGS AND AWARDS
RIDM: Montreal International Documentary Festival – Best National Short and Mid Length Award
Arkipel – Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival
RAI Film Festival
Images Festival
IsReal Festival – Best International Award
Gimli International Film Festiva
BIOGRAPHY
Naghmeh Abbasi is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Tehran. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Film, Video and Integrated media from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and an MA in Media Studies from The New School.
Filmography: Landscape Suspended (2022), A Flat Surface Higher than the Ground (2020), My Voice Takes on the Tone of a Convict (2018), White Shadow (2017), Inertia (2016), When He Explores the Vast Universe of the Boat in the Middle of the Ocean (2016), A Glimpse (2010)
