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EXILE FAMILY MOVIE

By Arash T. RIAHI

Documentary - Completed 2006

Festivals
& Awards

Max Ophüls Film Festival 2014

Award for Best Documentary Interfile Award 2007

Leipzig Documentary Film Festival 2014

Golden Dove for Best Documentary2006

Diagonale Film Festival 2006 2014

Award for Best Austrian Documentary

Vision du Réel 2006 2014

Ecofilms Festival Rhodos 2006 2014

Award for 2nd best midlength documentary

Bellaria Filmfestival Italien 2006 2019

18th “États Généraux du Film documentaire” 2006 2019

Chicago International Filmfestival 2006 2019

Silver Hugo for Best Documentary

- Year of production
- 2006
- Genres
- Documentary, Family
- Countries
- AUSTRIA
- Languages
- GERMAN, ENGLISH, PERSIAN
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Arash T. RIAHI
- Writer(s)
- Arash T.RIAHI
- Producer(s)
- Geza HORVAT, Arash T.RIAHI
- Synopsis
- A family’s story – typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and all the other relatives, close and distant, in an extended Persian family. Some of them emigrated to Europe or America, though the majority has stayed in Iran. Regardless of all the dangers involved, they secretly meet after 20 years at a place which won’t raise suspicion among the Iranian authoritites: Mecca. They come from America, Sweden, Austria and Iran to laugh, argue, cook and celebrate. This is accompanied by an excessive amount of hugging and kissing, and also a clash between Muslim and Western cultures. A bittersweet film that will make you laugh and cry.