ذهن

Documentary. 66 min. 2025.
Production company: Bautafilm
Produced in co-production with: Filmpool Nord, Film i Skåne

Roozbeh, a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and university lecturer, lives and works in his hometown of Isfahan. He is tasked with photographing and filming a student graduation celebration. The following morning, the secret police of the Islamic Republic of Iran enter the university and expel all Baháʼí students solely because of their religion.

Roozbeh is forced by the secret police to remove these students from all group photos and videos in the university archives and graduation celebration materials. This event marks the beginning of an odyssey for Roozbeh and his family – a journey that starts in his hometown of Isfahan and extends to a village named Harads, 40 kilometers from the border of the Arctic Circle, where he discovers another archive. The film, which took more than ten years to complete, serves as both a documentary about the conditions of the people of Iran under the rule of the Ayatollahs and a poetic narrative about the intertwining of memory and place. It tells the story of a man striving to create a meaningful connection between his past and present to prevent the collapse of his mind.

Director: Roozbeh Janghorban
Writer: Roozbeh Janghorban
Producer: Fredrik Oskarsson
Director of photography: Jimmy Sundin, Roozbeh Janghorban, Simon Öhman Jönsson
Editor: Roozbeh Janghorban
Music composer: Alexander Westlund

Language: Persian, English, Swedish
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