In the organizer's words:

My Stolen Planet is a centerpiece of the second part of 3 Days to Liberation.

A film that moves like a secret dance through the archives of memory - through images that were never allowed to be public, through voices that would not stop speaking.

Farahnaz Sharifi is one of the most important voices in Iranian documentary cinema. In her works, which have become deeply inscribed in the country's visual memory, she combines the private with the political, the fragile with the indestructible.

In My Stolen Planet, memory itself becomes a form of resistance. The director dances her way through history in a gesture that is denied to women in her country.

And dancing with her are many women whose search for freedom leads them through pain and loss. The film is a heartbeat that pulsates in the dream of liberation.

Text: Maryam Palizban

My Stolen Planet is an essayistic documentary film by Farahnaz Sharifi that follows the traces of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in the bodies, archives and memories of Iranian women. Sharifi uses found private Super 8 recordings to create a counter-archive of intimacy: a poetic topography of resistance.

Farahnaz Sharifi is a filmmaker, film editor and author. She studied film at Tehran Soureh University. In her documentary works, she uses archive material and private images to retell personal and collective stories.

In addition to her work as a director, she is one of the most renowned editors in Iranian cinema. Her short story collection Breathing in Open Air was published in Iran.

Her latest film My Stolen Planet premiered at the Berlinale 2024 in the Panorama section, screened at over 60 international festivals and won more than 25 awards, including the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2024, Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival 2024, Second Audience Award at the Berlinale 2024, Best Documentary at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Creative Use of Archive atIDFA 2024 and nominated for the European Film Academy Award 2024.

Director Farahnaz Sharifi will be present at the screening and will take part in the subsequent panel discussion.

Part of the program by:
3 DAYS TO LIBERATION II
(statement and program)
December 12-14, 2025
Conceived & curated by Maryam Palizban
Presented by CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK