“My Stolen Planet” directed by Farahnaz Sharifi, “What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?” by Faraz Fesharaki, “Sheep” by Hadi Babaeifar, and “Maydegol” by Sarvnaz Alambeigi are the films made by Iranian directors, selected in different sections of the festival, Honaronline reported.

The Panorama section will showcase 31 titles including one series and 25 world premieres. The documentary “My Stolen Planet” directed by Farahnaz Sharifi will have its world premiere at the section.

A joint production of Iran and Germany, it is about an Iranian woman who is forced to flee into her own world to be free. In the form of Super 8 films and sound recordings, she buys other people’s memories, archives her own, and uses them to create an alternative history of her homeland.

The Forum section will present 30 films from 30 territories. Iranian-German cinematographer Faraz Fesharaki’s directorial feature debut “What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?” is a documentary capturing his own family’s diaspora experiences, which will have its world premiere in the section.

A webcam dialogue between Berlin and Isfahan: Fesharaki documents conversations with his family over 10 years. This debut film blends recordings, text, and VHS memories into a warm, melancholy intergenerational portrait.

The Generation 14plus competition section will showcase 32 works, including seven debut films and 22 world premieres. The short film “Sheep” by Hadi Babaeifar will have its world premiere at the event.

The flick shows a little girl who lives with her mother in Tehran. Discovering that the sheep in her neighbors’ backyard are being sacrificed in a traditional ritual, she decides to save as many sheep as she can.

The documentary “Maydegol” by Sarvnaz Alambeigi is another film that will have its world premiere in the Generation section.

A joint production of Iran, Germany, and France, it is about an Afghan teenager living as an immigrant in Iran who strives to pursue her dream of becoming a professional Muay Thai boxer while battling the social injustice and violence she encounters beyond the ring.

In addition, it was announced last week that the digitally restored version of “Coming of Age” directed by Iranian filmmaker Sohrab Shahid-Saless (1944–1998) will be shown at the Classics section of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.

In addition to Shahid-Saless’ film, nine other films have been restored and will be screened in the Classics section of this year’s Berlinale. Among the restored versions, there are two gems by Ernst Lubitsch. One is his silent film “Kohlhiesel’s Daughters” and the other is his first talkie “The Love Parade”. Ishirō Honda’s “Gojira” (Godzilla), “After Hours” by Martin Scorsese, John Schlesinger’s “The Day of the Locust,” and Andrei Tarkovsky’s “The Sacrifice”.

The Berlinale is a unique place of artistic exploration and entertainment. It is one of the largest public film festivals in the world, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from around the globe each year. For the film industry and the media, the eleven days from February 15 to 25 are also one of the most important events in the annual calendar and an indispensable trading forum.

Photo: A scene from the short film “Sheep” by Hadi Babaeifar

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“Hendi and Hormoz” by Abbas Amini that is about the arranged marriage of a 13-year-old girl an a 16-year-old boy is competing in the Panorama, Contemporary World Cinema section.

“Dressage” by Puya Badkubeh, “3 Faces” by Jafar Panahi, and “Hattrick” by Ramtin Lavvafi will screen in this section.

“Dressage” tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who participates in a robbery, gets away with it and then faces unexpected consequences.

“3 Faces” is about a relationship between popular Iranian actress Behnaz Jafari and a provincial girl who lives with a dream of being an actress.

In “Hattrick”, a quartet of middle class Iranians leave a party together. Farzad and Keivan are old friends. Farzad’s wife Lida and Keivan’s friend Raha make up the foursome.

Asghar Farhadi’s “Everybody Knows” will also be screened in the Panorama, Special Presentations section.

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“Gold Carrier” by Turaj Aslani will be competing in New Currents, a section dedicated to promising Asian filmmakers, the organizers have announced.

Movies from Japan, Sri Lanka, Korea, Kyrgyzstan and several other countries will compete in the category.

“3 Faces” by Jafar Panahi, “Sly” by Kamal Tabrizi and “Rona, Azim’s Mother”, a co-production between Iran and Afghanistan by Jamshid Mahmudi, will be screened in A Window on Asian Cinema.

“Everybody Knows” by Asghar Farhadi has been selected for the World Cinema competition.

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“Run, Rustam, Run” by Hossein Molayemi will be competing in the perspective short films category, and “Mr. Deer” by Mojtaba Musavi is an entry in the short films category.

The animation “Run, Rustam, Run” tells the story of Rustam, a main character of Persian poet Ferdowsi’s epic masterpiece Shahnameh, who travels into the future and comes to Tehran in 2017.

The story of “Mr. Deer” is set in an unknown period of history in a ruined subway station that is similar to those found in modern European cities. People in this society have animal faces and have forgotten humanity.

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