Film Programme
Rough Cut
documentary , Mon, 20:00
Iran, 2007, 22min
Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani
Synopsis: The window displays of the Tehran clothing shops catch the interest of passersby who stop and linger. Gradually, the onlookers meet the stares of the grotesquely mutilated mannequins, disturbing reproductions of the female figure. The female mannequins are mutilated in order to minimize the feminine characteristics, like a warning call sent to Iranian women and society, an absurd totem intended to perpetuate the established order.
Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani
Born in Tehran, she settled in Italy to accomplish her art studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Brera. After graduating in 2002, she went back to Iran where she completed her masters degree in journalism. Firouzeh's filmmaking debut was the screenplay of Behesht-e Zahra, Martyr’s mother, a documentary about the Iran-Iraq War. She worked together with the Italian Red Cross in Bam, the town devastated by an earthquake, where she made the documentary about the Red Cross project Psychosocial Support Center (2004), screened by the Italian und Iranian TV. She writes for various Italian newspapers like Il Manifesto, Limes, D di Repubblica.
