duration 22 min | year of production 2009

Between places. Between people.

Helsinki-Tehran is a cinematic study on immigration and memory – on the shared verbal and nonverbal knowledge and emotional understanding which travels with displaced people from one generation to another.

cinematography Sini Liimatainen, Olli Leppänen, Joonas Kiviharju
sound design Sakari Luhtala
animations Joonas Kiviharju
compositing Olli Leppänen
producer Petra Virtanen
performers Aliakbar Saiyar, Azar Saiyar, Hamy Ramezan, Salla Sorri, Gerd-Peter Löcke, Dunja Saiyar, Aydin Saiyar, Pete-cat
production Azar Saiyar and University of Art and Design Helsinki

Festivals
European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Germany 2011
Videodumbo, New York, USA 2011
Signes de Nuit Paris, France 2010
l´Alternativa, Spain 2010
Loop festival, Spain 2010
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany 2010
Kettupäivät, Helsinki 2009
Nordisk Film Festival Fredrikshavn, Denmark 2009

Group exhibitions
Masters of Arts, Helsinki 05-06/2010
11×11 exhibition, Aalto yliopisto, Helsinki 04/2011

About Helsinki-Tehran in Format Court