Firouzeh Khosrovani: Last News

Damon Wise Iranian director Firouzeh Khosrovani has won the IDFA award for Best Feature-Length Documentary with “Radiograph of a Family,” a film that uses an intimate study of her parents’ marriage—her father was secular, Westernized and progressive, while her mother was a devout, traditional Muslim—to explore the divisions in Iranian society both in the run-up and aftermath of the Iranian Revolution in 1979.The jury, which comprised Marie-Pierre Macia, Ed Lachman, Alice Diop, Abdelkader Benali, and Finn Halligan, praised Khosrovani for her “masterful storytelling,” adding, “The fractured body of family life is told through images, photos, and enactments in such a way that the viewer, too, feels the loss.” Contacted by Zoom, the director

An elegantly composed mosiac of real events and artfully restaged memories, Iranian director Firouzeh Khosrovani's stylized documentary Radiograph of a Family is a personal passion project with rich political and cultural resonance. Subtly chronicling Iran's last few turbulent decades using her own parents as emblematic protagonists, Khosrovani's fourth feature makes imaginative use of nostalgic found footage, immersive sound design, love letters and vintage family photos, including some that the director salvaged and re-assembled after her religiously strict mother tore them into scraps.

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.