The Austin Asian American Film Festival will present A PEOPLE IN SHADOWS, the new film by award-winning director Bani Khoshnoudi, who studied in RTF before moving to Paris, France, in 1999. In 2006, Bani founded her production company, Pensée Sauvage Films, and recently produced and directed the feature length documentary about of Tehran, Iran, where she was born before immigrating to the U.S. in 1979. In Tehran, Bani is currently pursuing archival research on a film, while writing her first fiction feature, ZIBA. With this project, Bani has been selected for the Cinéfondation Screenwriting Residency of the Cannes Film Festival, which takes place from October 2009 to February 2010 in Paris.
Synopsis: Almost thirty years after the revolution, and twenty since the end of the long Iran-Iraq war, A People in the Shadows takes us on a voyage into the heart of Tehran, a megalopolis of 14 million people. The city is still recovering from its past, as talk of American sanctions and a possible attack resonate. Through observation and slow sequences, the film takes an intimate look at the way people live in this immense city today. Caught up in the paradoxes and contradictions of their society, the people of Tehran are surrounded by images of past and future death, while finding ways to juggle state propaganda and foreign threat on a daily basis.
A PEOPLE IN THE SHADOWS (90 m)
In Farsi with English subtitles
Saturday November 14th, 12pm
Alamo South Lamar
Co-sponsored by the University of Texas of Austin, Middle Eastern Studies Department.
Additional information:
Austin Asian American Film Festival
Pensée Sauvage Films
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