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Original Film Title: Afghanistan
Director’s Name: Farid Rahimi
Writer’s Name: Farid Rahimi
Producer: Marta Tagliavia
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey, United States
Language: English, German
Runtime: 1 hour 13 minutes
Film Description:
The movie stems from long-term research in which the artist reconnects with people and memories tied to the country of his father’s homeland, Afghanistan. Through a series of journeys, meetings and conversations, Rahimi reconstructs a geographical and emotional map of this network of contacts, following an itinerary that extends from Italy and Germany to the United States, Australia and Japan. By traversing vast physical, and emotional distances, Rahimi has embarked on a three-month journey around four continents to piece together, to confront and reconstruct, his fragmented identity divided between distant family ties and his sense of belonging to a country he has never visited: Afghanistan. This reflection, originating from a personal need, extends to explore the universal concept of diaspora and the constant renegotiation of personal identity that originates from that.