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SUBTOTALS

Mohammadreza Farzad
Iran, 2022
15 min.

An essay film made entirely out of 8mm home movies of Iranian people, Subtotals is a meditation on the uncertainties of a life that doesn’t hand you any bills.

Do you keep an account of your grey hairs? Of the number of houses you have owned or rented? Of the number of kisses you have exchanged? Of the number of times you’ve flown in dreams? You may not have. It makes no real difference in a life lived beyond numbers. Subtotals is an essay film about an accounting never being applied to one’s life’s products. Inspired by a short story of the same title by Gregory Burnham and the novel “Autoportrait” by Édouard Levé, and wholly composed of 8mm home movies of Iranian people, the film is a meditation on the uncertainties of a life that doesn’t hand you any bills. (Berlinale Forum Expanded)

The film is also distributed by Kino Rebelde (www.kinorebelde.com)

Date and Location

2nd of October, 16:00, Cinemateca Eforie

Tickets

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