What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?
Was hast du gestern geträumt, Parajanov?
دیشب چه خوابی دیدی پاراجانف؟
dir. Faraz Fesharaki
feature, creative documentary
2024 / 81 minutes / Germany / Farsi
Written and directed by Faraz Fesharaki
Production : DFFB, New Matter Films, Ewelina Rosinska
Producers : Luise Hauschild, Ewelina Rosinska, Mariam Shatberashvil
Cinematography : Moritz Friese, Shahab Fotouhi, Faraz Fesharak
Sound : Sum-Sum Shen Mix Jan Pasemann
Editing : Faraz Fesharaki
Cast : Mitra Kia, Hasan Fesharaki, Faraz Fesharaki , Rahi Sinaki
Synopsis
The webcam witnessed it all: from the strange snowfall in Isfahan to Mitra telling stories of her prison time and Hasan insisting on hearing his son's last night dream. A decade of family togetherness, online, between Isfahan and Berlin.
Festivals & screenings
World premiere : Berlinale Forum 2024, Germany
First Look Festival - Museum of the Moving Image, US
Sinema Transtopia, Germany
Bildrausch Filmfest Basel, Switzerland
Golden Apricot International Film Festival - Yerevan, Armenia
Dokufest, Kosovo
Vilnius Doc Film Festival, Lithuania
Film Fest Ghent, Belgium
Kyiv IFF Molodist, Ukraine
Awards
Jury special mention - Dokufest, Kosovo
Jury special mention - Kyiv IFF Molodist, Ukraine
3SAT Documentary Award - Duisburger Film Week, Germany
Press kit
Selected Press
Cineuropa Review
Sabzian Interview with Faraz Fesharaki
Filmmaker's bio
Faraz Fesharaki is an Iranian-German filmmaker and award- winning cinematographer living in Berlin. While studying Dramatic Literature and Film Studies at the Tehran University of Art, he attended Abbas Kiarostami's workshop and began making his own short films. In 2012, he started studying at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin.
His graduation film as a cinematographer, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? by Alexandre Koberidze, premiered in the Berlinale Competition in 2021, where it was awarded with the FIPRESCI prize. Faraz Fesharaki also received the award for Best Cinematography at the Sevilla Film Festival for his work on the film and a nomination for Best Cinematography at the German Film Critic Awards.
In 2021 he shot Sara Summa’s second feature Arthur & Diana which premiered at TIFF in 2023 and Mónica Lima’s new short film Natureza Humana, that won the Ammodo Tiger Short Award in Rotterdam 2023. What did you dream last night, Parajanov? is his first feature length film as a director.