Requiem for a Tribe

Marjan Khosravi / Iran, Spain, Qatar / 2024 / European Premiere / 70 min.

synopsis

Fifty-five-year-old Hajar, who has spent her entire life in the nomadic Iranian tribe of Bakhtiari, is betrayed and disappointed by her closest family, who want to force her to settle down and peacefully live out her life in the city. Although the circumstances, including the patriarchal social system, increasing urbanization and climate change, are not in her favour, Hajar is not going to give up her flock of sheep or her nomadic freedom. In her extremely empathetic, partly personal documentary debut, director Marjan Khosravi creates a portrait of a strong woman who, even in the face of turbulent modernity, does not want to let herself be deprived of the most valuable things she has – memories, traditions, contact with nature and the joy of free movement.

“I immediately figured out that Hajar and her personal story is the concept of my new film and I decided to make a film about her and all the other women like her: traditional women and their struggles with modern life. Their families always decide for them, yet they are never happy with these decisions. These women are not heard by anyone.” — Marjan Khosravi

Source: Variety

biography

Iranian filmmaker Marjan Khosravi (1996) studied film and media arts and is the author of the award-winning short documentaries The Snow Calls (2020), VADIYAR (2021), The Dream of a Horse (2022) and Mrs. Iran's Husband (2023), in which she deals with the rights and troubled fates of Iranian women.

more about film

director:	Marjan Khosravi
producer:	Milad Khosravi, Stephanie von Lukowicz
script:	Marjan Khosravi
photography:	Mehdi Azadi
editing:	Loghman Sokhanvar
sound design:	Arash Ghasemi
skladatel:	Mehdi Khosravi