Mitra Farahani

Mitra Farahani
Period: 2014-2015
Profession: Screenwriter Mitra Farahani was born in 1975. She lives and works between Paris and Teheran. After studying at the University of Tehran and the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, she made her first documentary film on a transsexual prostitute in Tehran (Juste une femme, 2001), which won the Special Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002, followed by Tabous (Zohre et Manouchehr), released in 2004, a poetic documentary on love and sexual relationships in Iranian society. In 2006, BehdjatSadr  : le temps suspendu, a documentary on a major Iranian painter of the “modern” period. His latest film, Fifi hurle de joie (2013), was selected for the Berlin Film Festival, as well as for the Cinéma du réel in Paris, where it won the Scam prize. In 2014, his short film David et Goliath n°45 (shot at the Villa Borghese) and his series of drawings Prends ma tête et arrête de me prendre la tête are exhibited as part of the exhibition Unedited History at the Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris and at the MAXXI in Rome. At Villa Médicis, Mitra Farahani will be developing a writing project for a documentary film. ” Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac was prevented by a miracle. But in the same situation, could that miracle exist today ? And today, could this situation take place? This is where the story of ignorance and innocence begins, drawn from real events, but through a critical and open rereading of archives and sacred and secular texts. The latter touch on the history of contemporary saints and martyrs, from a generation without a cause, grappling with state violence and power with exhausted divinity. ”