Profession, Documentarist / Herfeh, Mostanadsaz
Their profession is also their passion, but it’s a dangerous game. In the aftermath of the controversial presidential elections in 2009 and the resulting several-year phase of increased repression, seven female Iranian filmmakers open the door to their professional and personal lives. What does it mean to be a woman shooting independent documentary films in Iran? Why do people choose a career that may cost them their freedom? Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s PROFESSION: REPORTER (1975), the question of identity forms the beating heart of this film. To be a woman and a filmmaker are identity- creating components, but they also represent two great hurdles of a repressive state. PROFESSION, DOCUMENTARIST is a poetic diary of progressive Iranian women.
- Genre: DOK: Essay
- Country, Year: Iran, 2014
- Runtime: 80 Min
- Languages: Farsi
- Subtitles: English
- Directors: Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei
- Screenplay: Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei
- Cinematography: M. Reza Jahan Panah
- Editors: Shirin Barghnavard, Farhnaz Sharifi, Sepideh Abtahi, Arian Mehdizadeh, Nahid Rezaei
- Producers: Nahid Rezaei, Shirin Barghnavard
- World Sales: The Kingdom
