Development (2022)
Young Iranian artist Saleh Kashefi creates a poetic diary out of pieces of his life in Paris. Graceful young faces filmed ever so tenderly, the golden radiance of religious paintings, trivialities of a disjointed daily life overtaken by a gnawing sadness… Each shot is a note whose vibrancy is only enhanced by the sound material, as a ghostly double, made of thick silences and repetitive motifs, melodic apparitions and echoes. Development is the translation on film of a melancholy that is sensitively distilled from the bottom of a bathtub. (Claire Lasolle, FIDMarseille)
Director: Filmsaaz
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Alexandre Desane as |
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Baya Massamba-wa as |
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Axel Joubert as |
| Directing | Filmsaaz | Director |