Phantasmagoria in II

In a moment of revolutionary fervor, Kurdish partisans gather to celebrate the arming of the first female Peshmerga guerrillas. Their ceremony marks a moment of possibility, as a people dare to imagine a different future. But beyond the celebration, a war is unfolding. Through archival footage, the film revisits the Kurdish struggle in Eastern Kurdistan between 1979 and 1982, tracing the resistance against the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran and the hopes, fractures, and sacrifices of a revolution within a revolution.

A newlywed couple welcomes the husband's long time friend from abroad for an intimate dinner. As laughter and tension mingle, the husband begins to sense an unsettling closeness between his wife and their guest. Fueled by suspicion, jealousy, and pride, he considers crossing a line of his own—one that blurs guilt, desire, and the quiet undoing of trust.

Made for a film school assignment that required a real documentary, the filmmakers instead created a fake documentary disguised as nonfiction, successfully fooling their professor. The film takes place over the course of a drunken night, in which an alcoholic man and his drinking companion speak with the filmmakers about addiction, drifting between painful memories, absurd stories, humor, and contradictions, until the line between confession and performance begins to disappear.