new documentary essay film

JURY PRIZE in the BURNING LIGHTS COMPETITION – Visions du Réel Festival

Noghteh-e-Goriz / The Vanishing Point

a film by Bani Khoshnoudi

edited by Claire Atherton

Produced by Pensée Sauvage Films and KinoElektron

Iran – USA – France, 104 min., Color, 16mm, Super 8 et 4K

Abandoned houses, surviving objects that carry memory. Exiled from Iran after her film on the 2009 Green Movement was banned, a filmmaker breaks her family’s decades-long silence about a disappeared cousin, executed during the 1988 purges in Iran’s political prisons. Grappling with estrangement and loss, she uses fragments, archives, and the images made during her years of diaristic filming in Iran to reflect on the collective taboo, the fear that silenced the population for so many years, and the explosion of resistance that continues to grow within Iranian society today.

With the support of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, CNC (Centre National de la Cinématographie), Image/Mouvement of the Cnap (Centre National des Arts Plastiques), and La Scam – Brouillon d’un rêve

Festivals:

World Premiere : BURNING LIGHTS COMPETITION – Visions du Réel Festival