“Land Of Dreams” Photocall – The 78th Venice International Film Festival

Definitely. I’m glad you picked up on that. My first film, Woman Without Men, was focused on 1953, the U.S. coup, the CIA-backed coup in Iran. And the way in which the American government has again and again systematically dismantled governments and then abandoned them to total chaos and civil war. That’s how Iran was dismantled. There would have never been the Islamic revolution had it not been for the coup d’etat in 1953. The same thing has happened in Afghanistan. The film is very stylized, and it takes place in the future, but the absurdity of the American government’s policies, both domestic and international, are very real. In the film, I have an Iranian colony in the desert, maintained by the American government, full of ex-revolutionaries. The motto is: The enemy of our enemy is our friend. Which was the same with the Mujaheddin.

September 3, 2021 | 1:11 pm