KHANEH MA: THESE PLACES WE CALL HOME

Documentary | 90 minutes | 2006 | Canada, Iran
In Farsi with English subtitles 
Produced and directed by Anna Fahr

The wonder of the film is in the daily routines, the food, the dancing and laughter…the gradual realization that (the director's) family members have remarkable stories to tell.
                                                 - John Griffin, The Montreal Gazette

SYNOPSIS

Khaneh Ma: These Places We Call Home examines the question of what defines home by presenting the lives of three generations of Iranians living in Iran, Canada, and Germany. The film begins with the director's return to Iran, her country of cultural origin, where she becomes reacquainted with family she has not seen in over ten years and rediscovers a culture that has remained a quiet yet ever-present part of her life in Canada. As the journey unfolds, we uncover rarely seen aspects of Iranian culture as experienced by the director, while witnessing firsthand the process of leaving an old culture behind and the journey into a new one.

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Theatrical Release: 
National Film Board of Canada (NFB-Montreal, June 2006)

University Screenings: 
University of Ottawa (2006), Queens University (2006), Harvard University (2007), Columbia University (2007), Iranian Alliances Across Border's Conference in NYC (2007), New York University (2008)

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On salue avec d'autant plus de respect le film de  Anna Fahr qu'elle a su éviter, dans ce premier long métrage documentaire, les pièges habituels du double miroir brisé, pour nous entrainer avec finesse et sensibilité à la découverte d'une culture infiniment plus complexe que ne le supposent la plupart des Occidentaux.
- Odile Tremblay, Le Devoir

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