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ELEGY FOR THE FORGOTTEN, ON AN ENDLESS WAR
Synopsis
Between December 2025 and January 2026, the Iranian government massacred thousands of protestors; in February 2026, US forces began a bombing campaign against the country. As the Iranian administration seeks to control images of these events, filmmaker Bani Khoshnoudi interrogates the violence.
Synopsis
Between December 2025 and January 2026, the Iranian government massacred thousands of protestors; in February 2026, US forces began a bombing campaign against the country. As the Iranian administration seeks to control images of these events, filmmaker Bani Khoshnoudi interrogates the violence.
Our take
History repeats itself with violent insistence in this poetic short, which draws symmetries between the wars of Iran’s past and present. Lamenting the fallen while returning fire against regime censorship, Bani Khoshnoudi assembles a mosaic of righteous anguish from fragments of destruction.