Ropewalker Memories

Hamed Rajabi / Iran

Screening

Cinemes Girona

01-11-2024 / 16:00 h.

Film Information

Year: 2023

Duration: 114

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

One appartment. Two men: father and son. Against his son’s wishes, the father brings home sex workers. One of them, for the first time, refuses to leave and an unprecedented situation arises. The previously established principles of possession, ownership and consent begin to fade as the three of them live together. When the situation becomes untenable for the woman, she decides to leave, leaving her father and son with the need to open up to new horizons and seek freedom in dispossession. The absence of the woman becomes unbearable for them.

Director

Hamed Rajabi (Hamedan, Iran, 1982) graduated in Film from the University of Tehran and participated in the 2011 Berlinale Talent Campus. He began his career directing short films and went on to direct his first feature film, A Minor Leap Down (2015), which was selected that same year for the Panorama section of the Berlinale, where he won the FIPRESCI Prize. He has also written the screenplay for two feature films directed by Majid Barzegar: Rainy Seasons (2010) and Parviz (2012), both selected for numerous international festivals. He also wrote the screenplay for Pooya Badkoobeh’s Dressage, which won the 2018 Special Mention Award in the Generation section of the 68th Berlinale. Ropewalker Memories (2023) is his second and last feature film as a director. Since then, he has won various awards and distinctions at several international festivals.