Stories from Iran in Sweden

Iranian movie ‘See You Friday, Robinson’ has made its way to the 2023 edition of the Göteborg Film Festival in Sweden.

Written and directed by Mitra Farahani, the film will represent Iran at the new section of the 46th edition of the event, named “Stories from Iran”.

The 96-minute documentary is a coproduction from France, Switzerland, Iran and Lebanon.

The documentary provides an affectionate depiction of an encounter between the breathless titans, Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian filmmaker and literary figure Ebrahim Golestan.

They engage in long-distance exchanges of quotations and cryptic statements.

Their dialogs, which should have taken place long ago in the last century, inevitably consist of weighty themes such as humanity, time, art and death.

 Starting in 1979, the Göteborg Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Nordic countries. Each year the festival’s program group travels around the world to track down choice films to bring back to Göteborg.

These films are then presented during the ten-day festival at the end of January, creating a great banquet serving audiences with nearly 450 films from some 80 countries.

The 46th edition of the festival is scheduled for January 27 – February 5, 2023.

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