Maryam Tafakory’s Short films

Maryam Tafakory is one of the guests at the Festival conversations.

RAZEH-DEL
Maryam Tafakory / 2024 / Iran, Italy, United Kingdom / 28′ / Farsi
Production: Leonardo Bigazzi / Sound: Maryam Tafakory, Stefan Smith / Editing: Maryam Tafakory / Copy contact: Maryam Tafakory / maryam.tafakori@gmail.com

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.

MAST-DEL
Maryam Tafakory / 2023 / Iran, United Kingdom / 17′ / English, Farsi
Production: Maryam Tafakory / Sound and editing: Maryam Tafakory / Music: Sarah Davachi / Copy contact: Maryam Tafakory

Two women lie together in bed. As the wind bashes against the window, one recalls a past date with a man in Tehran.

NAZARBAZI
Maryam Tafakory / 2022 / Iran, United Kingdom / 19′ / English, Farsi
Production: Maryam Tafakory / Sound and editing: Maryam Tafakory / Copy contact: Maryam Tafakory

A film about love and desire in Iranian cinema where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited.

Screening followed by a discussion between Maryam Tafakory and Alice Leroy

Maryam Tafakory

Born and raised in Iran, Tafakory is a visual artist who makes textual and filmic collages that bring together poetry, speculative nonfiction, and archival material. Exploring the different registers through which images speak or refuse to speak, her work attempts to dissect veiled acts of erasure – of bodies, intimacies, and histories. Her research-based projects consider what is often neglected and discarded as trivial or excessive. She has an ongoing body of films, performances, and video essays in dialogue with post-revolution Iranian cinema.