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Director’s Profile

Raha Amirfazli is an Iranian filmmaker who graduated from the Art University of Tehran in Film Directing. She has made several short films that have earned her national and international screenings, including Solar Eclipse (2020). In addition to serving as a referee in the Danish journal Short Film Studies, she also served as the editor-in-chief of the 24 Frames website. Raha is currently advancing her studies in the MFA Film Production program of New York University. She is working on her first feature-length project In the Land of Brothers. Her filmography includes;
Writer and Director of In the Land of Brothers
Co-writer, Co-director and Executive Producer of Solar Eclipse (2020) (Short Film)
Writer, Director and Producer in Nausea (2018) (Short Film)
Writer, Director and Producer in A Tehran′s Symphony (2018) (Short Documentary Film)
Writer, Director and Producer in Madness (2017) (Short Film)

Synopsis

In the Land of Brothers is the intertwined story of Afghan refugees of Iran, in three decades. Starting in 1990, there is a ten-year gap between each episode.
Masoumeh: An Afghan woman is searching for her missing husband who hasn′t come home in two days, in the middle of a riot in Mashhad. Her daughter Hanieh is losing her hearing and wonders where her father is.
Mohammad: A teenage Afghan boy is constantly being captured by the police and taken to the station for forced labor. His family works precariously in greenhouses, and he needs to find a solution on his own.
Leila: A female janitor finds her husband dead before the new year′s big celebration. As she and her son are illegally living in Iran, she needs to bury her husband without the house owners noticing, otherwise she might be deported.
Qasem: The brother of Leila finds out his son had been killed in a proxy war in Syria. The government wants to grant citizenship to the Afghan families that′ve lost sons. The man struggles to reveal this to his wife Hanieh.

Achievements

2024 Sundance Film Festival - Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic
2024 Jeonju International Film Festival - Frontline
2024 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2024 Uruguay International Film Festival
2024 Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival
2024 Diaspora Film Festival
2024 Blue Mountain Film Festival
2024 Malaysia International Film Festival

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