In Between, a Place
Living between Germany and her home country of Iran, filmmaker Faezeh searches for where she belongs. Sustained by her intimate, long-distance bond with her two closest friends — one in exile and one unable to leave — the three women turn to cinema as a shared practice of survival, transforming distance into a place they can call home.
Iranian filmmaker Faezeh remains connected to her homeland through her childhood friends — Narges, exiled in Germany for political reasons, and Hamideh, unable to leave Iran. Bound by their shared commitment to cinema, the three women sustain a decade-long filmic exchange across borders, using the camera to hold onto one another and to question what home means when it is fractured by distance.
Opening with Faezeh’s archival footage from 2009, the film captures the last time the three young women stood side by side, imagining an uncertain future. Over the next thirteen years — shaped by political turmoil and mass protests — their decade-long filmic conversation endures. Across borders, they remain in constant exchange, and through the act of making a film together, cinema becomes a place where reunion is possible — if only for a moment.
Faezeh Nikoozad
Faezeh Nikoozad is an Iranian filmmaker and video artist based in Hamburg. Working across documentary, experimental film, and mixed media, she explores themes of home, childhood memory, and displacement. Her films have been screened and awarded at international festivals and exhibitions, including Festival dei Popoli, Kasseler Dokfest, Kino der Kunst, and the Berlin Biennale.
Wybrane festiwale i nagrody
Visions du Réel 2026
Reżyseria: Faezeh Nikoozad
Napisy: Polish, English
