Busan to host ‘I Am Trying to Remember’

The Busan International Short Film Festival (BISFF) in South Korea has been scheduled to host Iranian documentary ‘I Am Trying to Remember’.

Produced by Kaveh Farnam and directed by Pegah Ahangarani, the 16-minute documentary is a coproduction from Iran and the Czech Republic.

In ‘I Am Trying to Remember’, Pegah talks about Gholam, a man who’s not like her father, mother, uncles, or aunts, even though he’s always present at family gatherings.

Gholam films these everyday scenes with his own camera. At the time, Pegah can’t imagine what the purpose of these films might be, but she’s happy to pose before the lens of this family friend, who she’s certainly very fond of.

It is as if Pegah, the film’s director and chief protagonist, is reading from a children’s book; as if we are looking over her shoulder at Gholam’s films of the family and the old photos. The large family radiates great warmth as we see them shoveling snow or just sitting around at home.

‘I Am Trying to Remember’ was internationally premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in the Netherlands.

The BISFF has been launched in 1980 as the Korean Short Film Festival. It was the first short film festival to appear in Korea.

The festival aims to discover and introduce outstanding short films from around the world.

The 39th edition of the BISFF will take place on April 27-May 2, 2022.

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