Mania Akbari
Director
A Moon for My Father (2019)
Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of langauge, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin, family, death, water, desire and, throughout, a powerful will to form. Akbari looks into the connection between her body and the political history of Iran, investigating the relationship between her own physical traumas and the collective political memory of her birthplace. As she undergoes surgeries on a body decimated by cancer, remembrance and reconstruction provide a framework for investigating how bodies are traumatised, censored and politicized, and yet ultimately remain a site of possibility.
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, mdblist.two-actors, imdb.double-mastectomy, imdb.reconstructive-surgery, imdb.ivf-treatment, imdb.rubber-industry, imdb.childhood-memories + 23 more, imdb.hijab, imdb.iranian-woman, imdb.iranian-history, imdb.banana-skin, imdb.fruit-bat, imdb.body-politics, imdb.intercultural-communication, imdb.breast-surgery, imdb.giving-birth, imdb.ivf, imdb.epistolary, imdb.correspondence, imdb.breast-cancer, imdb.iran-iraq-war, imdb.essay-film, imdb.sculpture, imdb.sculptor, imdb.cancer, imdb.human-body, imdb.fertility-clinic, imdb.trauma, imdb.letter, imdb.mastectomy
Watch Providers: DocAlliance Films
Country: Iran
Production Countries:
Germany,
United Kingdom,
Iran
Languages:
English,
Persian
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85 min
March 25, 2019
Released
NR