ZARAFE
1:02:40 • 2024 • experimental essay
ZARAFE is a metaphor for the Iranian artist endurance, creating and surviving through art in daily routines, with constant emotional battles, managing to thrive and grow. Internal and external restrictions are nothing but a place for evolution. ZARAFE is an essay on hope, resilience and love.
- Director
- Mircea Sorin Albuțiu
- Stars
- Zahra Raeisolsadat
- Credits
- editing Maria Bălănean, sound design by Matei Vasilache, text by Raluca Boantă, music by Hesam Kardan & Aqu
Synopsis
Zahra is a young dancer based in Iran. Navigating the city with sensitivity, Zahra describes her thoughts on identity, daily struggles, resistance and fights against internal and external restrictions. Questioning and rigor are the main themes of her breath shortening dance performances, as a wonder of youth and braveness. Zahra’s battlefield is oftentimes her own mind, her performances being the place for the confrontation with herself. Between silence and despair, from hectic to explosive, there is the place where Zahra is free.