Completed - GERMAN, ENGLISH, PERSIAN - Documentary, Family - 94 minutes
Year of production : 2006 Director(s) : Arash T. RIAHI Writer(s) : Arash T.RIAHI Producer(s) : Geza HORVAT, Arash T.RIAHI
A family’s story – typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and all the other relatives, close and distant, in an extended Persian family. Some of them emigrated to Europe or America, though the majority has stayed in Iran. Regardless of all the dangers involved, they secretly meet after 20 years at a place which won’t raise suspicion among the Iranian authoritites: Mecca. They come from America, Sweden, Austria and Iran to laugh, argue, cook and celebrate. This is accompanied by an excessive amount of hugging and kissing, and also a clash between Muslim and Western cultures. A bittersweet film that will make you laugh and cry.
Country(ies) : AUSTRIA
Max Ophüls Film Festival 2014 (Award for Best Documentary Interfile Award 2007)Leipzig Documentary Film Festival 2014 (Golden Dove for Best Documentary2006)Diagonale Film Festival 2006 2014 (Award for Best Austrian Documentary)Vision du Réel 2006 2014Ecofilms Festival Rhodos 2006 2014 (Award for 2nd best midlength documentary)Bellaria Filmfestival Italien 2006 201918th “États Généraux du Film documentaire” 2006 2019Chicago International Filmfestival 2006 2019 (Silver Hugo for Best Documentary)Festival des Libertes Brussels 2006 2019The Magnificent 7 2007 2019 (The 7 best european documentaries of the year)