My Stolen Planet

An intimate tale about emigrating “inwards,” along with an attempt at an autobiographical hymn to freedom, this handcrafted documentary has Farah’s memories stitched onto fragile film; the memories of a woman who captures the beauty of her daily life in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, collecting strangers’ super 8mm film fragments, while discovering what it means to love from a distance, and to dream within four walls. Her developing connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during this tumultuous period, as well as her mother’s battle with Alzheimer's will shed light once and for all to the dark spots of her memory. An invaluable collective and personal archive that removes every single doubt about what the “female gaze” truly is, whilst adding new dimensions to the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising of 2022, its representatives, and its voices.