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Razeh-del

Maryam Tafakory
Iran / United Kingdom / Italy
27’47”

In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.

 In a time when images are both abundant and accessible — for the digital age instantly produces its own image-document and brings images of the past closer than ever before — a filmmaker like Maryam Tafakory has the sensibility to grasp this apparent paradox and the creative force to translate this status quo into the prime material of a cinema that is both contemporary and reflective of the past. Razeh-del, the second entry in Tafakory’s planned trilogy of the heart (alongside Mast-del, 2023, and the yet unreleased Sukhte-del) traces another episode in the author’s “becoming” a feminist: this time around exploring her memories of the late nineties, just when “Zan”, the first Iranian women’s magazine was being published. (Flavia Dima)

Screening date and location

September 28th, 9:00 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Awards & Festivals

Maryam Tafakory

Maryam Tafakory [b. Iran] works with film and performance. Solo screenings of her work include MoMA; BOZAR; NGA, Washington DC; and Academy Museum among others. Selected group events include: Tate Modern; Cannes’ Directors Fortnight; New York Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival. She was awarded the Gold Hugo at the 58th Chicago Int’l Film Festival; Tiger Short Award at the 51st IFFR; and Best Experimental Film at the 70th and 71st MIFF. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Jarman Award.



  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Director: Maryam Tafakory
  • Screenplay: Maryam Tafakory
  • Sound Design: Stefan Smith, Maryam Tafakory
  • Editor: Maryam Tafakory
  • Sound Mix: Stefan Smith
  • Produced by: Lo schermo dell'arte
  • Producer: Leonardo Bigazzi

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