2023 - 68th Edition
Time Of History - Feature films

MY WORST ENEMY

Mehran Tamadon
France, Switzerland
 - 2023

Mojtaba, Hamzeh, Zar are among other individuals who have been thrown into prison and ideologically interrogated in Iran. In this documentary, the director wants them to interrogate him as agents of the Islamic Republic might. He would like the real torturer in Iran to see himself through the film as if in a mirror. The violent experience of putting themselves in the torturer’s head confronts them with their own limits and the ambivalence of the project itself.

Mehran Tamadon

Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1972, he first studied architecture in Paris before turning to filmmaking. He directed his first medium-length documentary, ‘Mothers of Martyrs’, in 2004. In 2010, he made ‘Bassidji’, in which he attempted to dialogue with the defenders of the Iranian regime. He continued this approach with ‘Iranian’ (2014), where he convinced supporters of the regime to stay with him for two days. His lastest films, ‘My Worst Enemy’ and ‘Where God Is Not’, were premiered at the Berlinale in 2023 (the second of which won the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Berlinale Forum), and deal with the violence of interrogation and detention in Iran.

DIRECTOR
Mehran Tamadon
SCREENPLAY
Mehran Tamadon
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Patrick Tresch
EDITOR
Mehran Tamadon, Luc Forveille
SOUND
Laurent Malan, Simon Gendrot, Philippe Grivel
PRODUCTION
Raphaël Pillosio, Elena Tatti
PRODUCTION COMPANY
L’Atelier Documentaire, Box Productions
FEATURING
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Taghi Rahmani, Mojtaba Najafi, Soheil Rassouli, Hamid Kalani, Hamze Ghalebi
RUNNING TIME
82 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in French and Farsi subtitled in English and Spanish.
COUNTRY
France, Switzerland
CONTACT
Estreno Nacional

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