IRANIEN

Meheran Tamadon, an atheist Iranian director who grew up in Europe, decides – partly as a bet, partly to create a form of dialogue – to spend a weekend with four fundamentalist mullahs who have blind faith in the theocratic Republic of Iran. This voluntary exile in a country villa leads the five to discuss – sometimes heatedly, sometimes in a more relaxed and joking manner – current topics such as Islam, democracy, the role of women, and freedom of thought, sparking a debate that would otherwise be impossible.

“My filmmaking is not a weapon of war. I do not use images as a means to demonstrate my own thinking or to settle scores. I do not use it as an instrument of propaganda, but to create a space that should enable mutual understanding and make dialogue possible. A space that obliges people who hate each other to see and listen to each other, so that one day they may be capable of mutual tolerance. In this sense, this documentary does not show society as it is. It contains a promise within itself. It is a space that creates situations that do not exist in Iran today.”

regia, interprete/director, cast
Meheran Tamadon
fotografia/cinematography
Mohammad Reza Jahanpanah
montaggio/film editing
Meheran Tamadon, Marie-Hélène Dozo, Luc Forveille, Olivier Zuchuat
suono/sound
Ali-Reza Karimnejad, Myriam René
produttori/producers
Raphaël Pillosio, Elena Tatti
coproduzione/coproduction
L’Atelier Documentaire, Box Productions