In Between, a Place – Films

جایی در میانه

Faezeh Nikoozad
Deutschland | 2026 | 95 min
Weltpremiere
Sprachen : Farsi, Deutsch, Englisch
Untertitel : Englisch, Französisch

Drei iranische, seit ihrer Kindheit miteinander befreundete Filmemacherinnen erkunden anhand von gefilmten Korrespondenzen die unterschiedlichen Wege, die ihre Leben genommen haben: im Heimatland bleiben, auswandern oder im Exil leben. Die im Lauf von dreizehn Lebensjahren entstandenen Bilder untersuchen den Begriff der Heimat und die Beziehungen, auf die es ankommt. Ein eindrucksvoller und einfühlsamer Film über Freundschaft in Zeiten von politischen Unruhen und Unterdrückung.

The arrival in a snow-covered Hamburg is somewhat cold and disappointing. No one to embrace, no one to prepare her a hot meal. When Faezeh leaves Tehran in 2009, she leaves behind her best friends Narges and Hamideh. With them, a sense of home existed. Their spontaneous bond had been strengthened by their love of cinema and took shape in the images of the films they made, in which they performed for one another. As a teenager, Faezeh was already filming, preserving. Having lost both her parents before she reached adulthood, she understands the fragility of relationships – of what truly matters. Faced with an Iran that has no place for their creative fire and vital energy, emigration and exile have driven them apart, at least physically. Over thirteen years of life and as many filmed correspondences, the images of the three friends explore the notion of home and the bonds that matter. Thirteen years of filmed correspondence, where friendship and cinema create a fragile space for belonging, in times of political unrest and repression.

Mourad-Anis Moussa

In Between a Place, 2026
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Missed Embrace, 2019
Asb, 2017
DogMe, 2015
Pixelated Memory, 2014
Stilleleben, 2013
Veil, 2009
Myself, 2009