Movie Details
Original Language:Persian
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A Moon for My Father
Audience Score
1 hr 25 minDocumentary
Plot
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