Majmouan

Mohammadreza Farzad / Polonia, Germany, Iran / 2022 / 16’ / Persian | Italian and English Subtitles

Inspired by a short story of the same title by Gregory Burnham and the novel Autoportrait by Édouard Levé, Subtotals –is 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 gray 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.

Screenplay Mohammadreza Farzad
Editing Amir Adibparvar
Music Afshin Azizi
Sound design and mix Hasan Shabankareh
Producer Krzysztof Franek, Krzysztof Pijarski, Kuba Mikurda, Stanisław Liguziński, Afsun Moshiry, Dagna Kidoń
Director assistant Elnaz Pourrajab
Art design Tevik Zadourian
Post-Production Hamidreza Fatourehchian

Mohammadreza Farzad

Mohammadreza Farzad (1978) born in Iran, in Teheran. He was a PhD at the Film Factory, directed by the legendary hungarian author Béla Tarr. His started his career like a poet and translator. His first works as a documentarist: Into Thin Air (2011) and Blames and Flames (2012), both presented at Berlinale Forum Expanded and screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest, Moscow IFF, CPH:DOX, Hot Springs IFF, Oberhausen, Ji.hlava IDFF, Jeonju IFF, Molodist and the Walker Art Centre. Hirs third and fourth documentary: Forget-Me-Not Egg (2013) e Wedding: A Film (2015) were presented at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and in the section Next Masters at DOK Lipsia and screened at Ankara IFF, Open City, DMZ, Tempo IFF e Parnu. Now, his working at his first feature-lenght A Gaze Long into the Abyss.