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29.03. / Wednesday, 17:30 - 19:30 Theatre 1 | |
01.04. / Saturday, 17:00 - 19:00 Theatre 2 |
Subtotals is an essay film, a meditation on the uncertainties of a life that doesn’t hand you any bills. It is an essay wholly composed of 8mm home movies of Iranian people, about an impossible attempt at accounting for one’s life’s products. Have you kept an account of your grey hair? Of the number of houses you have owned or rented? Of the number of kisses you have exchanged? Of the number of times you have flown in dreams? You may not have. It makes no real difference in a life lived beyond numbers. Inspired by a short story of the same title by Gregory Burnham and the novel Autoportrait by Édouard Levé, this is the first film in Farzad's trilogy revolving around the subject of the family.
Mohammadreza Farzad (1978, Tehran, Iran) is a poet, literary translator, and filmmaker. His career in documentary film started with Into Thin Air (2011) and Blames and Flames (2012). Both short films premiered at Berlinale Forum Expanded. Farzad was a PhD student at the Film Factory headed by the legendary Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr. He is currently working on his first feature film A Gaze Long into the Abyss.
General sponsor
Majmouan
Poland, Germany, Iran
2022, 15'
Directed by:
Mohammadreza Farzad
Screenplay by:
Mohammadreza Farzad
Edited by:
Amir Adibparvar
Music:
Miguel Miranda, José Miguel Tobar
Producers:
Clare Weiskopf, Nicolás Van Hemelryck, Radu Stancu, Alexandra Galvis
Produced by:
Casatarántula, DeFilm, Pantalla Cines
Sponsors
AVC SONY REZOLUCIJA KERSCHOFSET HOTEL ACADEMIA AVITEH MOGLO ORYX RENT A CAR PRESS CLIPPING BIO&BIO