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Utopia in the Making

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L'Utopie en marche

Utopia in the Making

by Jocelyne Saab, Rafic Boustani

Iran, Lebanon

 

L'Utopie en marche

Directors: Jocelyne Saab, Rafic Boustani

Cinematographer: Olivier Gueneau

Editing: Philippe Gosselet

Sound: Imad Hammoud

Sound Mix: Paul Bertau

With: Selim Turquie, Bijam Hikmat

Production: Jocelyne Saab, Collection d'Artiste

Year: 1980

Beta Num, Colour, 52 min, French Version

Unreleased

Movie restored by Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas

1981. This road-movie in Iran, from Teheran to Isfahan, Shiraz, Qom….up to the Afghan border was made thirty years ago already!

A dictatorship (the Shah’s) had just fallen. Who will replace him? Democracy or the Mullahs? Iran is at a crossroads, as it earlier was. Is this an example or a counter-example for the "Arab springs"?

Director Jocelyne Saab and Rafic Boustani, the co-writer of The Atlas of the Arab World were already questioning this issue. Holding a camera, they take us on the trails of a world in process.

 

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