MY STOLEN PLANET
"My Stolen Planet" is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression. Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn't know. Relying on others' recordings, she gains a new perspective on losing memories.
Her connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds a name and story to one of her archive's faces. Farah's mother, suffering from Alzheimer's, motivates her to fight against forgetting. In the fall of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom uprising became a turning point in Farah's life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran.
This is a homemade history.
DIRECTOR
Farahnaz Sharifi
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YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
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GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
82 min.
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COPRODUCTION
Pakfilm Germany/Iran
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FESTIVALS
Worldpremiere @Berlinale Panorama
TIDF#26 - International Premiere in competition @Thessaloniki International Film Festival
48th HKIFF Hong Kong International Film Festival - Reality Bites - Asian Premiere
Visions du Réel - Highlights - Swiss Premiere
Hot Docs - Persister - North American Premiere
37. Bolzano International Film Festival Bozen
Dokfest Munich - Filmmakers in Exile - Regional Premiere
Taiwan International Documentary Filmfestival
Beldocs IDFF - Serbian Premiere
Innsbruck IFFI - Austrian Premiere
Bildrausch Filmfest Basel - Regional Premiere
71. Sydney Film Festival - Australian Premiere
Golden Apricot - Regional Competition - Armenian Premiere
MDOC Melgaco International Documentary Film Festival - Portuguese Premiere
Lemesos International Documentary Festival - Cyprus Premiere
Dokufest Prizren - Kosovo Premiere
Make Docs Skopje - Macedonia Premiere
Freistadt der Neue Heimatfilm - local Austrian Premiere
Sofia DocuMental - Bulgarian Premiere
Busan IFF - South Korean Premiere
BFI London Film Festival - UK Premiere
Inconvenient Films Documentary Festival - Lithauanian Premiere
Brussels Festival des Libertés - Belgian Premiere
Middle East Now Festival Firenze - Italian Premiere
Nuremberg Interantional Human Rights Film Festival - Regional Premiere
Slovenska Kinoteka - Slovenian Premiere
Astra Filmfestival - Rumanian Premiere
Chicago International Film Festival - US Premiere
Westlake Int. Documentary Festival - Mainland China Premiere
Duisburger Filmwoche - Local Premiere
Dresden MOVE IT Festival - Local Premiere
ZINEBI Bilbao int. Film Festival - Spain Premiere
Kassel Dokfest - Local Premiere
Doc NYC - New York Premiere
IDFA - Netherlands Premiere
FIDOCS Chile - South American Premiere
14th int. Crime & Punishment Film Festival - Turkish Premiere
Les Rencontres du Cinéma Docmentaire - French Premiere
21st Verzió Film Festival - Hungarian Premiere
5th Orient Express Film Festival - Regional Premiere
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MARKETS
DocFest Munich Masterpitch 2023
Berlinale Producers Hub 2023
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AWARDS
Second Panorama Audience Award 2024
German Documentary Music Award 2024 for the
Composition of Atena Eshtiaghi
Golden Alexander @TIDF#26 Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival
FIPRESCI Award @TIDF#26 Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival
Roman Brodmann Preis - Haus des Dokumentarfilms - Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik 2024
​Martin Award Film Festival Innsbruck 2024
Audience Award - Bolzano Film Festival Bozen 2024
Peter Liechti and Audience Award @Bildrausch Basel 2024
Audience Award and Next Generation Award
@TIDF Taiwan 2024
Silver Apricot - Golden Apricot Film Festival Armenia in Regional Competition 2024
Jean-Loup Passek Award for Best International Feature Length Film @Melgaçao Documentary Fim festival 2024​
Documentaryfilm prize and Prize of the youth jury @Der NEUE HEIMATfilm, Freistadt Austria 2024
Silver Hugo Documentary Chicago Int. Film Festival 2024
Best Director Award Astra Film Festival Official Selection 2024
Youth Jury Award ZINEBI International Film Festival 2024
10. Move it! Filmprize for Human Rights Dresden 2024
Best Film International Competition @FIDOCS Chile 2024
​Boeld & Geluid ReFrame Award @IDFA 2024
Int. Golden Scale Feature Film Competition Award @ int. Crime and Punishment Filmfestival Istanbul 2024
Audience Award @27e Rencontres du Cinema Documentaire Paris
Documentary Selection for European Film Awards 2024
Nominated for German Film Critics Award 2024
Best Film @ IMPACTE! Human Rights Film Festival of Catalonia
Audience Award Docville, Leuven, Belgium
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LIFE IN THE SHADOWS (WT)
Years after his classmates were massacred at his school in Pakistan, director Khadim Dai records the lives of Machid, who attends the same school, and Khatima, who works in the cemetery where the dead students are buried.
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Jury statement Sunny Side of the Docs 2023:
“This project successfully highlights the significance of portraying the narratives of marginalized individuals who are often unheard in society.”
DIRECTOR
Khadim Dai
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YEAR OF PRODUCTION
in post production​
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
CO PRODUCTION
Kamay Film, Ilyas Yourish
MARKETS
Hot Docs Dealmaker 2023
Sunny Side of the Docs 2023, Winner New Voices
Special Award - Pitch the Doc Prize
DMZ Docs Pitch, Korea – Global Pitch
Cannes Docs - Docs by the sea showcase 2025
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ABO ZAABAL 89
Bassam Mortada was five years old when he first visited his father Mahmoud in the notorious Abo Zaabal prison. With the police raid still fresh in his mind, his experience was dominated by incomprehension. But in the years that followed, resentment took hold.
Bassam was raised by his mother Fardous, a socialist activist herself. As a single parent, her life was hard, and when Mahmoud was finally released from prison he seemed like a different person. He left for Vienna, and for a second time she was left behind, this time embittered. Bassam grew alienated from both, suppressing his own trauma and confusion.
In this documentary, he films his efforts to renew and restore relationships with his parents and find a path to historical truth, emotional comprehension and psychological healing, as he tries to reconstruct how his parents’ political activism has shaped their family. Through conversations with his parents and their friends, the cassette tapes his father sent from Vienna, a theatrical monologue by his father’s best friend, newspaper archives and found footage, he shows the impact of the “big” history of Egypt on the “small” history of his family.
DIRECTOR
Bassam Mortada
DOP
Maged Nager
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YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
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GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
83 min. HD
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FESTIVALS
Cairo Int, Film Festival 2024
IDFA Luminous Section 2024
Carthage Film Festival 2024
True/False Film Festival 2025
Thessaloniki Open Horizons Category 2025
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MARKETS
Robert Bosch Film Prize, winner 2019
IDFA Forum 2022
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AWARDS
Best Documentary @Cairo Int. Film Festival 2024
Africa Feature Special Jury Award @Cairo Film Festival 2024
Special Mention @Critics Week Cairo Film Festival 2024
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LES ENFANTS
TERRIBLES
Filmmaker Ahmet Nacdet Cupur returns to his small home village in the southeast of Turkey to follow his brother Mahmut while he frees himself out of his marriage - arranged when his wife was still a child - and his sister Zeynep studies long hours after her work in a factory to get a school degree and the chance to build up her own existence. Their parents and the people in the village do not receive these decisions with cheers…
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DIRECTOR
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
DOP
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Lucie Baudinaud
EDITOR
Mathilde Van de Moortel
Elif Uluengin
Nicolas Sublarti
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YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2021
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GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
CO PRODUCTION
TS Production France
Liman Film Turkey
MARKETS
Vision du Réel 2019
Docs Barcelona 2019
Copro Market DokLeipzig 2019
Winner Poster Award Meetings on the Bridge 2020
Winner of Work in Progress Antalya Film Forum 2020
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FESTIVALS
International Feature Film Competition @Visions du Réel 2021
Official Section Panorama @DocsBarcelona 2021
Competition Programme @Sarajevo Film Festival 2021
fARAD, Rumania 2021
National feature film competition @Adana Film Festival 2021
International Competition @Flahertiana FF, Perm Russia 2021
Official Selection @BFI London Film Festival 2021
Section Documentaire @Cinemed Montpellier 2021
West Lake IDF, China 2021
Guangneung, South Korea 2021
Documentary Section @Camerimage 2021
Family Topography section @RIDM Montréal 2021
German Premiere @Kasseler Dokfest 2021
Best of Fests @IDFA 2021
Selection @European Film Awards
official selection @Zurich HRFF 2021
Crime & Punishment Festival @Istanbul 2021
Section Competition Revolution @Cinemamed, Belgium 2021
Cinema Verité IDF, Iran 2021
Fipadoc Panorama Section, France 2022
Doc Point Helsinki, Finland 2022
int. Documentary Competition @SIFF, Bulgaria 2022
section Filmlandschaften @26. Filmfestival Türkei Deutschland, Nuremberg 2022
Türkische Filmtage, Munich 2022
Filmreihe Typisch Türkisch, Cologne 2022
Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy 2022
Zagreb DOX, Croatia 2022
Millenium IDF, Belgium 2022
Docs Against Gravity, Poland 2022
HADOC Festival, Portugal 2022
Neisse IFF, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic 2022
One World Romania, 2022
Türkisches Filmfestival Berlin 2022
Rome International Filmfestival 2022
Sinema Transtopia, Berin 2023
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AWARDS
Special Jury Award @Visions du Rèel 2021
Human Rights Award Sarajevo 2021
Best Film, Best Editing, Special Jury Mention to Zeynep Cupur
@Adana Film Festival 2021
Second Silver Nanook and Audience Award @Flahertiana Film Festival, Perm, Russia 2021
Mention @Cinemed Montpellier 2021
Jury Special Award @Crime and Punishment Festival Istanbul 2021
Young Jury Award @Cinemamed Belgium 2021
Best Film international competition @Cinema Verité, Iran 2021
Best Documentary @Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards 2022
Grand Jury Prize @Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy 2022
Best Cinematography @Rome International Documentary Filmfestival 2022
Zalab Prize @Rome International Documentary Filmfestival 2022
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LIFT LIKE A GIRL
On a busy, noisy high-traffic street corner in Alexandria, Egypt, a seemingly vacant corner lot surrounded by chain link fencing is the training site of Egypt’s most elite champions - female weightlifters. Zebiba (Arabic for “raisin”) has been training at the site for five years, since she was 9, following in the footsteps of Egypt’s most famous athletes of all time - including the first Arab, female, two-time Olympic medalist weightlifter, Abeer Abdel Rahman, and World champion and Olympic athlete, Nahla Ramadan. Nahla’s father, the visionary Captain Ramadan, has bred champions, female champions, from his makeshift corner-lot training site for over two decades - 4 Olympic, 9 World and 17 Pan African champions. Now it is Zebiba’s turn. But can Zebiba put aside her youthful instincts, and direct her focus to be the weightlifting champion the Captain is sure she is?
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DIRECTOR
Mayye Zayed
DOP
Mohamed El-Hadidi
EDITOR
Sara Abdallah
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2020
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GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
CO PRODUCTION
Cleo Media
Rufy’s Film Egypt
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a coproduction with ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel
on Netflix in non german speaking countries
FESTIVALS
TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival [World Premiere] 2020
DOK Leipzig [European Premiere] Winner of Golden Dove 2020
DOCNYC [US Premiere] 2020
CIFF - Cairo International Film Festival [MENA premiere] 2020
MED Film Festival, Italy 2020
THESSALONIKI Documentary Festival 2021
Sofia Film Festival 2021
JEONJU Int. Film Festival 2021
Krakow FF 2021
Sheffield DocFest 2021
Doc Edge 2021
ONE WORLD Int. Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2021
SIFF Shanghai International Film Festival 2021
GABES CINEMA FEN 2021
GUKIFF 2021
Safar London Filmfestival 2021
Flahertiana FF, Perm Russia 2021
Zwickl Dokumentarfilmfest Schwandorf 2023
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AWARDS
Golden Dove in German competition @DOKLeipzig 2020
Bronze Pyramid Award for Best First or Second Film @CIFF2020
Audience Award @CIFF 2020
Isis Award for Best Egyptian Film highlighting Women's Economic and Social Role @CIFF2020
Best Documentary @Critics Award for Arab Cinema, Festival de Cannes 2021
Best Director @GUKIFF South Korea Filmfestival 2021
Nomination @Cinemaforpeace Foundation Award for Women's Empowerment
Filmprize for Global Learning @Filmtage Globale Perspektiven
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WEBSITE
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CALLE DEL ARTE
Calle des Arte is a documentary directed by Viviane Blumenschein, which accompanies Clemencia Labin, the inhabitants and the artists before, during and after the Velada Santa Lucía 2012.
DIRECTOR
Viviane Blumenschein
DOP
Björn Knechtel
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YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2013
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GENRE
TV Documentary
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FUNDERS​
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein in collaboration with ZDF/arte
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