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.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Firouzeh Khosrovani, Fabien Greenberg, Bard Kjøge Rønning, Andrea Segre, Giulia Campagna
Directors: Morteza Ahmadvand, Firouzeh Khosrovani
Script: Firouzeh Khosrovani, Morteza Ahmadvand
Director of Photography: Mohamad Hadadi
Music: Christophe Rezai
Sound: Ensieh Maleki
Editing: Solmaz Eftekhari
Production. Fifi Film, Antipode Films, ZaLab Film, Rai Cinema

Awards
Special mention Cinema & Art Award, Giornate degli Autori, Venice IFF, 2025; Best Film in the Envision Competition, IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2025; Golden Firebird Award, Hong Kong IFF, 2026

Morteza Ahmadvand
Morteza Ahmadvand is a multimedia artist and filmmaker based in Tehran, born in Khorramabad, Iran. He holds an MA in Painting from the University of Tehran. Trained in painting and sculpture, his practice evolved into video art and installations, retaining visible traces of his painterly origins. Over the past decade, his work has explored the intersection of visual art and cinema, engaging with themes such as identity, memory, and cultural coexistence. His video installation Flight is part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2020, he served as Artistic Director of Radiograph of a Family. His installation Becoming was presented at the Venice Biennale in 2019, in the group exhibition The Spark Is You, confirming his ongoing commitment to poetic and multidisciplinary forms of storytelling.

Filmography
Flight (short, 2009), Life (short, 2010), Untitled (short, 2011), Cube (short, 2012), Past Future Continuous (doc., 2025)․

Firouzeh Khosrovani
Born in Tehran, Firouzeh Khosrovani graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 2002. Upon returning to Iran, she earned an MA in Journalism and collaborated with various Italian newspapers and magazines. Her documentary career began in 2004 with Life Train. In 2007, she directed Rough Cut, a documentary about mutilated mannequins in Tehran shop windows, which won 13 international awards. In 2008, her video installation Cutting Off was presented at the Triennale di Milano. In 2010, she directed 1001 Irans, exploring perceptions of Iran abroad. She took part in international collective films such as Espelho Meu (2011) and Archivio a Oriente (2012), produced by Asiatica Film Mediale and Istituto Luce. In 2014, she directed an episode of the Iranian omnibus film Profession: Documentarist. That same year, she directed Fest of Duty, a documentary about a religious ceremony introducing nine-year-old girls to Islamic precepts. Her acclaimed Radiograph of a Family (2020) won 34 awards, including two at IDFA. In 2022, she became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Filmography
Life Train (short, 2004), Rough Cut (short, 2007), A Thousand and One Irans (medium-length, 2010), Espelho Meu (collective film, 2011), Archivio a Oriente (collective film, 2012), Profession: Documentarist (collective film, 2014), Fest of Duty (medium-length, 2014), Radiograph of a Family (doc․, 2020), Past Future Continuous (doc․, 2025)․