A little-known 1980 vinyl is the starting point of this film. Rhymes and Songs for OPEC is a special record by the Central University of Venezuela’s concert choir to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Layered on songs and rarely seen archives, the film reframes oil not as a commodity but as a political leverage for the liberation struggles in Palestine and building Pan-Arab solidarity between 1960-1970.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Sanaz Sohrabi, Burak Çevik
Director: Sanaz Sohrabi
Archival Research and Script: Sanaz Sohrabi
Directors of Photography: Siavash Naghshbandi, Ignacio Márquez, Eva Posani
Music: Jeremy Leon
Sound: Chris Leon
Editing: Sanaz Sohrabi, Muhammad Nour El-Khairy
Production. Studio Bardasht, Fol Films, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Nuri Cem Erbak, Cenk Ünalerzen

Awards
First Film Loridan-Ivens Award & GNCR – Young Jury Award, Cinéma du Réel, France, 2026

Sanaz Sohrabi (born 1988, Tehran)
Sanaz Sohrabi is a researcher of visual culture and artist-filmmaker based in Montréal, working on visual histories of resource sovereignty and post-colonial ecologies from the Global South. Her films and installations have been shown and awarded in various festivals and biennials, including Berlinale, IFFR, Ljubljana Biennial, and Museum of Contemporary Art Montréal (MAC). Her first documentary feature An Incomplete Calendar (2026) premiered at Cinéma du Réel.

Filmography
Disposables (short, 2015), Auxiliary Mirrors (short, 2016), The Glory, the Human, And the Mother: a Cartography (short, 2017), Script for Groundless Images (short, 2018), Notes on Seeing Double (short, 2018), One Image, Two Acts (doc., 2020), Scenes of Extraction (doc., 2023), An Incomplete Calendar (doc., 2026).