29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Missing

Farahnaz Sharifi / Iran / 2017 / World Premiere / 60 min.


synopsis

Once we begin to consider certain people, items, or memories as our own, we lay ourselves open to the threat that we’ll lose them. Once the loss actually occurs, our mental image of the lost thing doesn’t disappear – on the contrary – it intensifies. This documentary, inspired by the stories of missing people in Iranian newspapers, searches for people who have disappeared for various reasons, but their tracks still resonate. A wide spectrum of archival materials offers a variety of answers to the question of how the absent can remain present, while live images of grieving loved ones then act as an appeal to all those who would brush off this painful ambivalence.

„It could be so simple at times. We just leave home and forget to return. Or don’t want to return. Or cannot return...” F. Sharifi

biography

Farahnaz Sharifi (1977) is one of the most successful contemporary Iranian documentary filmmakers. Her films have appeared at Ji.hlava twice: in 2012, her film Revolutionary Memories of Bahman Who Loved Leila (2012) and a year later a collective work by seven Iranian directors Profession: Documentarian (2013). The central motif of blending personal and historical memories links Missing with the first of the above-mentioned films.

more about film

director: Farahnaz Sharifi
producer: Ehsan Rasoulof
photography: Mohammadreza Jahanpanah
editing: Farahnaz Sharifi
music: Farshad Fozouni
sound: Mehrshad Malakouti

contact

FARAHNAZ SHARIFI / no5, hoorbakht alley, azodi st, karimkhan st / Tehran / Iran / +00 98 912 510 5875 / farnaz.77@gmail.com

Film at festival

premiere type:World Premiere
festival edition:2017
section:Opus Bonum
format:Video File
language:Persian
subtitles:English
colour:Colour and B&W

Info

director:Farahnaz Sharifi
original title:Nā-padid
country:Iran
year:2017
running time:60 min.

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Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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