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REQUIEM FOR A TRIBE

MARSIEHEI BARAYE EIL

By Marjan KHOSRAVI

SEVEN SPRINGS PICTURES - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline / PROD

Documentary - Completed 2024

Hajar, a 55-year-old Bahktiari woman from Iran is betrayed by her own family. She fights to maintain her nomadic lifestyle while climate change, urbanization and social issues have drastically diminished the traditional migrating activities of her tribe.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- IRAN, SPAIN, QATAR
- Languages
- FARSI
- Duration
- 70 mn
- Director(s)
- Marjan KHOSRAVI
- Writer(s)
- Marjan KHOSRAVI, Milad KHOSRAVI
- Producer(s)
- Milad KHOSRAVI (SEVEN SPRINGS PICTURES), Stephanie VON LUKOWICZ (Lukimedia)
- Synopsis
- Fifty-five-year-old Hajar, who has spent her entire life in the nomadic Iranian tribe of Bakhtiari, is betrayed and disappointed by her closest family, who want to force her to settle down and peacefully live out her life in the city. Although the circumstances, including the patriarchal social system, increasing urbanization and climate change, are not in her favour, Hajar is not going to give up her flock of sheep or her nomadic freedom. In her extremely empathetic, partly personal documentary debut, director Marjan Khosravi creates a portrait of a strong woman who, even in the face of turbulent modernity, does not want to let herself be deprived of the most valuable things she has – memories, traditions, contact with nature and the joy of free movement.