2023 - 68th Edition
Alchemies, Young Seminci

THE SIREN

Sepideh Farsi
France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and Qatar
 - 2023
Estreno nacional

1980, Abadan. The capital of the Iranian oil industry is resisting an Iraqi siege. Amongst them is the 14-year-old Omid, who chose to stay in the city with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to return from the frontline. Along with Omid, a gallery of unusual characters have all remained in the city for their own reasons, and each resists in his or her own way. But how can you resist in a war without taking up arms? Then Omid finds an abandoned ship in Abadan’s harbour.

Sepideh Farsi

She was born in Tehran in 1965 and came to Paris in 1984 to study mathematics, but soon drifted towards cinema. She began directing the short films ‘Northwind’ (1993) and ‘Water Dreams’ (1997), before making documentaries such as ‘The World Is My Home’ (1999) or ‘Homi Sethna, Filmmaker’ (2001), the latter awarded at Cinema du Reel. In 2002 she directed her first feature film, ‘Journey of Maryam’, which was followed by ‘Dreams of Dust’ (2003) and ‘The Gaze’ (2006), both premiered at Rotterdam FF. Her documentaries ‘Harat’ (2007) and ‘Tehran Without Permission’ (2009) were released in Locarno. In 2014 she broke taboos in Iranian cinema with ‘Red Rose’, which premiered in Toronto, and with ‘7 Veils’ (2017) she won the Grand Prix at FIDMarseille. ‘The Siren’ (2023) is her first animated feature film.

DIRECTOR
Sepideh Farsi
SCREENPLAY
Javad Djavahery
ANIMACIÓN
Zaven Najjar, Jean-Claude Charles, Yukiko Megnien
EDITOR
Isabelle Manquillet, Grégoire Sivan
SOUND
Pierre Vedovato, Jeroen Truijens, Nicolas Tran Trong, Luca Theis
MUSIC
Erik Truffaz
PRODUCTION
Sébastien Onomo, Vanessa Ciszewski, David Grumbach, Annemie Degryse, Richard Lutterbeck
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Les Films d’Ici, Katuh Studio, BAC Cinéma, Lunanime, TrickStudio Lutterbeck, Special Touch Studios, Rêves d’Eau Productions, Amopix, Les Fées Spéciales, Saarländischer Rundfunk
VOCES
Mina Kavani, Hamidreza Djavdan, Parviz Sayyad
RUNNING TIME
100 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in Farsi subtitled in English and Spanish
EDAD RECOMENDADA
A partir de 14 años
COUNTRY
France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and Qatar
CONTACT

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