Past Future Continuous
2004
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Past Future Continuous

Category
Documentary

Documentary, 77 min.

 

A film by Morteza Ahmadvand & Firouzeh Khosrovani

 

with support from Rai Cinema, ZDF/Arte, NFI, Fritt Ord, Kultudirektoratet, Viken Filmsenter, IDFA Bertha Fund, Torino Film Lab, Creative Europe Media, Visions du Sud Est.

 

Maryam fled Iran at the age of twenty, wrapped in a sheepskin, hidden among a flock crossing the mountainous border between Iran and Turkey. The revolution had just triumphed, and her politically active friends had been imprisoned or executed. Her family decided to save her at any cost. Maryam left Iran—and never returned. In Iran, with the help of her friends, Maryam installs surveillance cameras in the house where her parents still live: a flickering connection to the past, projected on a screen in her American home.When the internet in Iran is cut off, the images freeze or disappear, severing Maryam’s bond with her homeland. Past and present merge and blur.

A poetic and moving story of exile, memory, and the hidden ties to places one can no longer return to places that can only be revisited in dreams, through technology and nostalgia.

World Premiere at Giornate degli Autori – Mostra di Venezia 2025