Farhad Ghodsi

The story of Imam Hossein's battle in Karbala, an unfair war which made one the most important effects in Islam history.

An original account of the 2015 Paris’ terror attack, Cyclothymia of a Land echoes the deep reasons of physical and psychological displacement. Emergencies, iniquity, propaganda, terrorism, war to terror, all inhabit an unusual journey into Tehran’s contemporary and precarious cityscape and an eerie and non-reassuring vegetation.

A young woman is murdered by her own father, with the help of her younger brother. She is secretly buried in the cellar, a space where the women of the family weave carpets and perform other domestic chores. Her loss, or perhaps her presence, continues to haunt the family as it reverberates through the following generations. Ayyari’s film is staged exclusively in this house and was banned several times in Iran.

The Journey of a young man who is making a documentary about forgotten narratives around an old piano, takes him through an unknown path towards restoring history, culture and identity of his homeland, Iran, in dusty and abandoned objects.