Logline:

Kamran Shirdel, an Iranian documentary filmmaker known for delving into societal contradictions and pioneering the address of the struggles of marginalized women, has been absent from filmmaking for over four decades. Two young Iranian filmmakers decide to make a film about Shirdel and explore their country’s tumultuous recent history through the lens of his films.

Directors’ Statement:

We have long had a fascination with both the modern history of Iran and the history of cinema. In the figure of Shirdel, these two preoccupations came together in one place. Shirdel lived through a tumultuous period of history, during which he directly recorded or indirectly reflected several major historical turning points in his films. Despite his uncompromising pursuit of truth through cinema, Shirdel faced censorship and effective bans on his filmmaking by both the Monarchy and the Islamic Regime, both before and after the Revolution. Through exposing many contradictions within society, Shirdel and the film we are making about him become a lens through which we can explore the history of our country, the role of artists during revolutions, and our own past and future as young filmmakers.

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