LIFE MAY BE

By Mark COUSINS, Mania AKBARI

THE FESTIVAL AGENCY - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2014

A unique journey into the minds of two exceptional filmmakers which becomes a love affair on film.

Festivals
& Awards

Edinburgh 2014
Karlovy Vary 2014
Torino FF 2014
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM, IRAN
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, PERSIAN
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mark COUSINS, Mania AKBARI
    • Writer(s)
    • Mark COUSINS, Mania AKBARI
    • Producer(s)
    • Don BOYD (HiBROW)
    • Synopsis
    • Life May Be is a digital film which could have been made in the 18th Century. Like Pamela, Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel, it is an exchange of letters - between Mania Akbari and Mark Cousins. Their themes are wide ranging - filmmaking, exile, Iran, the Holocaust and the human body. The film's form starts with extreme minimalism, but then opens up and shape shifts. We see ideas evolving, but style, too, as each filmmaker climbs upon the other's shoulders.