The Vanishing Point

Abandoned houses, surviving objects that carry memory. Exiled from Iran after her film on the 2009 Green Movement was banned, a filmmaker breaks her family’s decades-long silence about a cousin who disappeared and was executed during the 1988 purges in Iran’s political prisons. Grappling with estrangement and loss, she uses fragments, archives and the images captured during her years of diaristic filming in Iran to reflect on the collective taboo, the fear that has silenced the population for so many years, and the ongoing surge of resistance within Iranian society.