Phobos
2023 | 15 min | Documentary
The collaborative project by Wim Wenders "A Sense of Place": An Iranian city constantly threatened by war in a never-ending nightmare.
Mina Keshavarz
DirectorThe Iranian filmmaker Mina Keshavarz works as a director and producer of documentary films. She founded the production company MinDoc Film Production, which specializes in creative documentaries. Her film *The Art of Living in Danger* (2020), which addresses the fight against domestic violence, received a nomination for the Glashütte Original Documentary Award at the Berlinale. For her more recent work *Silent Scream* (2023), which deals with the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, she was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in 2024.
Films
A Sense of Place – Interview with Wim Wenders
By Azin Feizabadi, Pooya Abbasian
2023 | 21 min | Documentary
Interview with Wim Wenders about his vision, the significance of place in cinema, and the response to this project among Iranian filmmakers.
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