Shanghai Selection ‘Requiem for a Tribe,’ From Hot Docs Winner Marjan Khosravi, Aims to Give a Voice to Nomadic Iranian Women
15.06.2024 - 11:43
/ variety.com
Naman Ramachandran Iranian filmmaker Marjan Khosravi, winner of multiple awards for her shorts, is bowing her first feature-length film, “Requiem for a Tribe,” at the Shanghai International Film Festival. The film is in the documentary competition and eligible for a Golden Goblet. Khosravi has an awards-laden career.
Earlier this year, she won awards at Hot Docs and Fribourg for her short documentary “Mrs. Iran’s Husband” and at Budapest for “The Dream of a Horse.” Her mid-length documentary “The Snow Calls” premiered at IDFA in 2020 and won a prize at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. “Requiem for a Tribe” follows Hajar, a 55-year-old woman from southwestern Iran’s Bakhtiari tribe who is betrayed by her family and forced to abandon a nomadic lifestyle.
The film is set in a context where climate change, urbanization and social issues have drastically diminished the traditional migratory activities of the tribe. Khosravi has an intimate knowledge of the Bakhtiari nomads because she is one of them. She was born in a Bakhtiari village and lived there until 2015 when the family, which includes her brother and producer Milad, moved to Tehran to continue studying and to pursue their dreams of working in cinema.
City life was attractive for the Khosravis, but Marjan and Milad’s mother became depressed because she was used to the countryside, surrounded by natural beauty. Marjan Khosravi was working as an assistant director when she met Hajar Faramarzi. “She talked about her memories of migration for hours.
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