Starting December 5, you can watch Between Revolutions, a film that chronicles the correspondence and friendship between two women separated by thousands of kilometers between Iran and Romania. The film will be available to watch online for free until December 10 and there will also be an online discussion on the topics from the film on December 9.
The film is available on kinedok.net until December 10 and you need a voucher to view it for free. Please email us at films@kinedok.net and we will send it to you.
BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS (Vlad Petri, 2023, Romania, Croatia, Quatar, Iran, 69 min)
In the epistolary narrative, straddling between documentary and fiction, we meet Zahra and Maria — a pair of women who encounter each other in the 1970s while studying in Bucharest. Their incredibly close relationship is ruptured when Zahra decides to return to her native Iran in 1979, where a new political regime is established after the revolution. Hope and the promise of a freer society hang in the air, but it does not materialise. Likewise, Zahra never meets Maria again. They maintain their friendship only through intimate letters. The film tells this melancholic story using only archival footage, depicting two heroines entangled in the whirlwind of great history, from which escape seems possible only through memories.
The film is available in all KineDok countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, and Hungary).
DISCUSSION: 9. 12., 7 PM (GMT+1)
Join a panel discussion (in English) on the topics from the film, that will be held on Monday on Facebook (@KineDok International) and our YouTube channel (@InstituteOfDocumentaryFilm). Guests of the discussion will be introduced soon, stay tuned!