Using animation and images, filmmaker and ex-political prisoner, Masoud Raouf shows us how step by step the visual landscape along with art and culture were subverted and replaced as means to install the government’s theocracy. As an act of restoring the human map, Raouf shares his stories based on his experiences and memories of pre and post revolution Iran while living in exile.

Director : Masoud Raouf

Screenwriter : Masoud Raouf, Robin Gorn

Year of production: 2014
Documentary/Animation (30min)

Interview with the director:

Director, Writer: Reza Allamehzadeh
Year of production: 2014
Language: Farsi/English
Documentary/Drama (70min)
Synopsis:
A tale of two mothers and daughters, one imaginary (Roya and Darya), the other real (Azar and Nina) sharing a cell in prison. Roya is a young sketch artist who was arrested on the day her exhibit was to open in Tehran. And Azar is a young mother incarcerated with her young daughter Nina in Evin prison. The stuff of the film’s narrative is a combination of reality and imagination; it uses Roya’s designs (of infant Nina’s first steps in prison to her own appearance before the Death Committee) to describe the shocking story of political prisoners killed by Khomeini’s Fatwa in 1988, and buried in unmarked mass graves in Khavaran. Does Darya, the imaginary daughter of Roya, get the chance to fulfill her mother’s wishes by finding Nina and retrieving the lost sketches of her own childhood in prison?

Websites:
http://www.tellmeoftheseasmovie.com/
http://asre-nou.net/php/view.php?objnr=30774
Trailer Farsi: http://vimeo.com/88280313
Trailer English: http://vimeo.com/87533426