Zamani

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Realisiert im Rahmen von Berliner Korrespondenzen, einer Reihe der Allianz Kulturstiftung und des Gorki Forums, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Humboldt Universität Berlin und gefördert durch das Auswärtige Amt

A film by Zara Zandieh
12 min | Germany & Switzerland 2022

In a magical forest where everything seems to talk to one-another, four siblings from another time-space reality come together to summon one of their kins from the past. The ancestor beholds a message for them. A message to the Earthlings on how to face climate change.

Writer & Director: Zara Zandieh
Producers: Laura Coppens & Zara Zandieh
Cinematography: Diara Sow
Editing: Zara Zandieh
Sound Design & Original Music: Azadeh Zandieh
Film Stills © Diara Sow

DIRECTOR’S NOTE:
ZAMANI is a word with multiple uses across Asia and Africa. It is often related to time and means: „time“, „a time period“, „an epoch“, „a dimension of history“ and „an age“ . In Farsi it means a time period which can be set in the future or the past. It is an endless period, an unspecific period, it has no beginning nor end point. It floats in a non linear space.

Our film ZAMANI refers to the circularity of time. A time period which already took place and yet to come, and in which four siblings from a different world and time-space who know how to connect with their environment remind us together with their ancestor kin what link we are missing.

One of the biggest crises of our time – the climate crisis – is not missing knowledge, or information or science. All of that we know and have access to. What is missing is that we connect to our planet and all its entities and inhabitants. And that we re-learn what it means to be home on planet earth.