Wales filmfest hosting Iranian doc

Iranian short documentary ‘I Am Trying to Remember’ has been competing at the 21st Wales One World Film Festival.

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.

WOW "Wales One World" Film Festival is a small festival from Wales that started 20 years ago.

They curate eye-opening world cinema so you can experience the weird, wild, wonderful world we live in.

The 2022 edition of the event is currently underway from February 25 and will end on March 13.

PR/FM