Having seen a trio of delights from the festival,I was intrigued to find that the 2021 WOW Film Festival had a Cinema of Iran section. Finding this to be the title in the group with the shortest run-time,I got set for a loved viewing.
View on the film:
Detailed in a hour long interview after the screening/stream by producer Elaheh Nobakht that she and director Yaser Talebi spent 2017 building a relationship with Firouzeh, who gave them permission to make a documentary about her over 2018 and 2019.
Filmed over those two years, Talebi sways a delicate ecological subtext to Firouzeh's cow farming, via narration from the 80 year old Firouzeh, (whose face is superbly captured in close-up against a scotching hot sun) being layered over the changing seasons on the farmland, with Firouzeh being vocal about her desire of wanting to retain a strong connection to nature, as local Govt officials and family members suggest she should retire.
With Nobakht being the youngest producer in Iranian cinema, the makes present a strong, independent portrait of Firouzeh, who shrugs off comments from all the men about what she should be doing in her life,and despite her 11 children (!) barely having contact with her, Firouzeh finds a love with nature.
View on the film:
Detailed in a hour long interview after the screening/stream by producer Elaheh Nobakht that she and director Yaser Talebi spent 2017 building a relationship with Firouzeh, who gave them permission to make a documentary about her over 2018 and 2019.
Filmed over those two years, Talebi sways a delicate ecological subtext to Firouzeh's cow farming, via narration from the 80 year old Firouzeh, (whose face is superbly captured in close-up against a scotching hot sun) being layered over the changing seasons on the farmland, with Firouzeh being vocal about her desire of wanting to retain a strong connection to nature, as local Govt officials and family members suggest she should retire.
With Nobakht being the youngest producer in Iranian cinema, the makes present a strong, independent portrait of Firouzeh, who shrugs off comments from all the men about what she should be doing in her life,and despite her 11 children (!) barely having contact with her, Firouzeh finds a love with nature.
