28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Hidden

Hidden

director: Jafar Panahi
original title: Hidden
country: France
year: 2020
running time: 18 min.

synopsis

Like his previous films, Jafar Panahi shot Hidden under guerrilla conditions due to a government ban: just three people, two phones and one car. In it, the Iranian director, his daughter, and a theatre producer friend head to a remote Kurdish village where a talented singer is said to live. Panahi would like to record the young woman's singing for audition purposes, but her family doesn't want her to perform in public. This tribute to the female voice, stronger than tradition and religious prejudice, was originally written for the Paris Opera and was also included as part of the feature-length short story film Celles qui Chantent.

biography

Jafar Panahi (1960) has already won a prize at Cannes for his feature debut The White Balloon (1995). His later films critically examining the restrictive conditions in today's Iran received awards in Berlin, Venice, and San Sebastian. In 2010, he was banned from filming and forbidden from leaving the country for 20 years for anti-government activities.

more about film

director: Jafar Panahi
producer: Philippe Martin, Dimitri Krassoulia-Vronsky
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms