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Photos by Mladen Pikulic
Two women separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.
In the 1970s Bucharest, Zahra and Maria formed a deep friendship while studying at university. As political turmoil brews in Iran, Zahra is forced to return home, leaving Maria behind. Over the next decade, they maintain their connection through a series of letters, chronicling their struggles as women fighting for a voice and their respective countries moving in divergent directions. Despite the distance and obstacles, their longing for each other remains strong.
Both screenings include a Q&A with the director Vlad Petri.
Saturday, 30 November – 17:30
ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 70 MIN
DUTCH PREMIERE
INTRE REVOLUTII | Vlad Petri | 2023 | Romania, Croatia, Qatar, Iran
PRODUCTION
Monica Lazurean Gorgan – Activ Docs; Restart
SOUND
Filip Muresan, Vlad Voinescu
CAST
Victoria Stoiciu, Ilinca Harnut (voice)
EDITING
Dragos Apetri, Catalin Cristutiu, Vlad Petri
SCREENPLAY
Lavinia Braniste, Vlad Petri
FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION)
Berlinale, 2023 – World Premiere, FIPRESCI Award | ZagrebDox, 2023 – Special Mention | Transilvania IFF, 2023 – Best Romanian Film, FIPRESCI Award | Make Dox, 2023 – Best Film | Valladolid IFF, 2023 – Best Documentary | Trieste FF, 2024 – Best Documentary
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Vlad Petri is a filmmaker interested in political and social subjects. He often incorporates personal images alongside official archives to create films that blur the line between documentary and fiction. His debut work, “Where Are You Bucharest?”, had its premiere at the Rotterdam IFF. His second feature, “Between Revolutions”, premiered at the Berlinale Forum where it achieved the prestigious FIPRESCI Award, and earned selections in more than 100 festivals worldwide. Besides his feature films, Petri has also directed several shorts that have been screened and awarded at various festivals.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
The film is made exclusively from archives, which mirrors the lives and destinies of two women, university colleagues and friends, one from Romania and the other from Iran, living in two patriarchal societies. It’s a hybrid film that mixes archives and real documents with fictional elements, having at its core the correspondence between these two women. The text of the letters is inspired by archives from the Secret Police and by the poems of two important female writers from Romania and Iran – Nina Cassian and Forugh Farrokhzad and is written by one of the most talented Romanian contemporary writers – Lavinia Braniste. I started working on this film more than 3 years ago, after reading a study about foreign students living in Romania during the communist period… It’s a film about the recent past, which reverberates very strongly with the immediate, current reality. It presents a subjective, feminine history of two countries and societies that experimented with different political systems, an Islamic and Communist one, in which people were gradually crushed by the repressive political apparatus.