My Stolen Planet
My Stolen Planet is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression. Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn’t know. Relying on these recordings from other people, she gains a new perspective on losing memories. Her connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds a name and a story to one of the faces in her archive. Farah’s mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, motivates her to continue her fight against forgetting. In the autumn of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom uprising becomes a turning point in Farah’s life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran. This is a homemade history.
Farahnaz Sharifi is an Iranian writer, director and editor, now based in Germany. She studied film at Soore University in Tehran and began her career directing a number of internationally acclaimed short documentaries. Her film Radiograph of a Family won the award for Best Editing at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2020. She wrote, filmed, directed and edited her debut feature-length documentary Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man (2024) (My Stolen Planet).
