Marta Balaga In her new documentary “Radiograph of a Family,” which has its world premiere at IDFA, Iran’s Firouzeh Khosrovani turns to her own family for answers about the country’s divided society.
Calling her fifth film “a project of a lifetime,” the director starts by recalling how her mother literally married a photograph of her father in Tehran in the 1960s before joining him in Switzerland, where he was studying radiology.“It was such an absurd thing that the groom wasn’t even at his own wedding,” Khosrovani tells Variety. “My mother went to live with a stranger in Switzerland, where she felt so out of place, later becoming this devout religious person.
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