Content Details
Radiograph of A Family
Duration: 80’ & 60’
Language: French, Persian
Subtitle: English
Production Year: 2020
Format: 2K
Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani
Origin: Norway, Iran & Switzerland
SYNOPSIS
My mother married my father ś photograph in Tehran. He was studying radiology in Switzerland, and for mother to come and live with him, marriage was obligatory. For my mother, with her religious background, living in Europe was a challenge. Sin was everywhere. My father came from a liberal and secular family. He was a lover of culture, fine arts, classical music. My mother never understood how he for example could treasure a painting depicting nude bodies.
AWARDS
World Premiere: IDFA 2020 – Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary/Beeld en Geluid ReFrame Award for Best Creative use of Archive, Films From The South 2020 – Audience Award of Films From South, Shorts International Films Festival 2021 – Special Mention, Zagreb Dox 2021 – Movies That Matter Award, Films Femmes Méditerranée Marseille 2021 – Special Mention, MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival 2021 – Best Film, IndieLisboa 2021 – Amnesty International Award, Independent Fest of Cinema 2021 – Jury award for best director, Austin Asian American Film Festival 2021 – Jury award, West Lake International Documentary Festival 2021 – Special Mention, Memorimage Festival Internacional De cinema Reus 2021 – Cinema-Rescat Award, Tunisia – Ahmed Attia Award, This Human World International Human Righs Film Festival 2021 – International Competition Winner, UnArchive Festival 2023 – Best Feature Film for the Student Jury, Middle East Now and Middle East Now – Summer Nights 2021 – Premio Cinema Iran e Afganistan, Beirut International Women Film Festival (BWFF) 2022 – Best Documentary, Doc Lands 2021, Palestine Cinema Days 2021, Millenium International Documentary Film Festival 2021, Sarajevo International Film Festival 2021, Dharamshala International Film Festival 2021, Energa Camerimage 2021, Festival du Film d’education 2021, Asian FIlm Festival Barcelona 2022, DocuKino 2022, International Documentary Film Festival Vienna 2022, Seattle International Film Festival 2022, Edinburgh Iranian Film Festival 2022, Arte Mare 2022, DOC-CÉVENNES / Festival International de Lasalle 2022, Festival ELLES TOURNENT – DAMES DRAAIEN 2022, Berlin Revolution Film Festival 2022, Master international Film Festival (MIFF) 2022, Alternative Film Festival CINEMAS 2022, Ambulante 2022, Arlington Int’l Film Festival 2022, Qisah International Film Festival 2022, Sguardi Altrove Film Festival 2022, MUJERDOC 2023, Dokudoc 2023, Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival 2023