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And How Miserable is the Home of Evil
Saleh Kashefi
Title:
And How Miserable is the Home of Evil
Synopsis:
The website of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is crammed with filmed sermons and speeches. Appropriating these official archives, Saleh Kashefi, an Iranian filmmaker exiled in Switzerland, has created a political fiction that is both hard-hitting and ambiguous. We bear direct witness to the dictator’s last moments before his downfall, as whispers fill the streets.
Director: Saleh Kashefi
Year of production: 2023
Countries: Iran, Switzerland
Running Time: 7’
Program
Monday December 4th to Sunday December 10th
10:00 – 24:00 (GMT-5)
Festhome
Online for Cuba
Tuesday December 5
21:00h (GMT-3)
Centro Cultural General San Martín
Sarmiento 1551, C1042 ABC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wednesday December 6
17:00 (GMT+1)
Zumzeig Cinecooperativa
C/ de Béjar, 53, 08014 Barcelona, Spain
Friday December 8
10:00h (GMT-6)
Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Calle Dr Mora 7, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Sunday December 10
10:00h (GMT-6)
Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Calle Dr Mora 7, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Sunday December 10
19:00h (GMT-3)
Centro Cultural General San Martín
Sarmiento 1551, C1042 ABC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Production: Saleh Kashefi
Genre: Documentary
Language: Persian
Production company: Jeunes sauvages, the world is ending and I’m making my films
Screenplay: Saleh Kashefi
Editing: Saleh Kashefi
Sound Design: Yatoni Roy Cantu
Festival Selections: Visions du Réel, IDFA – Paradocs, São Paulo Short Film Festival, Kassel Dokfest 2023, Silhouette Film Festival (Best Hybrid Film), Syncro Film Festival (Best Film).
Director's bio:
Saleh Kashefi is an Iranian audiovisual artist currently living in Geneva, Switzerland. He started as a child actor at the age of 9 and by the age of 12 he was shooting his own films. He has made 13 short films that have been screened in more than 100 film festivals around the world and won 27 awards. He has participated in events such as Cannes, Berlinale, Biennale, Locarno, Visions du Réel and FIDMarseille. His films are made with zero budget and feature a mix between fiction and documentary. Kashefi tells stories that until now have not been told in Iranian cinema.
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