Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man / Farahnaz Sharifi / Germany, Iran / 82’ / 2024

My Stolen Planet is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression. Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn’t know. Relying on others’ recordings, she gains a new perspective on losing memories.
Her connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds a name and story to one of her archive’s faces. Farah’s mother, suffering from Alzheimer’s, motivates her to fight against forgetting. In the fall of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom uprising became a turning point in Farah’s life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran.
This is a homemade history.

Director (Regie) Farahnaz Sharifi
Screenplay (Buch) Farahnaz Sharifi
Cinematography (Kamera) Farahnaz SharifiEditing (Montage) Farahnaz Sharifi
Music (Musik) Atena Eshtiaghi
Sound Design (Sound Design) Daniel WulfSound (Ton) Farahnaz Sharifi
Producer (Produzent*in) Anke Petersen, Lilian Tietjen, Farzad PakExecutive Producer (Ausführende*r Produzent*in) Anke Petersen
Co-Production (Koproduktion) PakFilm, Hamburg

Farahnaz Sharif
Farahnaz Sharifi is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker and film editor who was forced to go into exile at the end of 2022. She has graduated from Tehran University in Cinema studies. Her films are mostly based on archives and she uses archive images and film to tell her stories. Farahnaz is also a well known film-editor in Iran. Her recent work as an editor is an acclaimed feature length documentary film Radiograph of a Family which won the Best feature length documentary Film Award IDFA 2020 and an Award for creative use of archive IDFA 2020. Farahnaz has received many awards inside and outside of Iran including best film Award in Uppsala Short Film Festival. In addition, she was a jury member at IDFA 2021. Beside her career as a filmmaker and editor, she is also a writer and her book of short stories Breathing in Open Air has been published in Iran.