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Farahnaz Sharifi, My Stolen Planet, 2024

The Film Club: My Stolen Planet

Film & conversation

8.3 2025

Stockholm

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On the International Women’s Day, the Film Club and Salam Cinema will screen “My Stolen Planet” from 2024. The diary-like documentary by filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi depicts the lives of girls and women in Iran. The film will be followed by a conversation between Fataneh Farahani, professor at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University, and Roxy Farhat, artist and filmmaker.

THE FILM CLUB

My Stolen Planet (2024, 82 min)
by Farahnaz Sharifi

Date

Saturday 8 March 2025

Time

15.00–17.00

Location

The Cinema, floor 2

Language

Persian and English with Swedish subtitles. The discussion afterward will be in Swedish.

Price

100 SEK, 50 SEK for members of The Film Club and Klubb Moderna

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Contact: Camilla Carlberg, Moderna Museet

In “My Stolen Planet”, the filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi (born 1979, Iran) depicts women’s experiences and the present is woven together with fragments of memory from the time before the religious revolution. We are invited to intimate scenes where women honour their heritage through forbidden activities, such as singing and dancing.

Through archives and privately filmed material, Farahnaz Sharifi has compiled testimonies about what it is like to live in a context where resistance, freedom and revolution stand in stark contrast to the dictatorship that wants to silence and make women’s voices invisible. “My Stolen Planet” deals with collective forgetfulness, and how hope can be manifested by trying together to remember what the regime wants to make you forget.

In the fall of 2022, Farahnaz Sharifi participated in the protests in Iran under the slogan “Women, Life, Freedom”. It became a turning point in her life when she was subsequently forced to leave Iran for an indefinite period.

When we share our memories with other people, they are transformed from the private to the universal. This story is closely intertwined with the resistance to forgetfulness. — Farahnaz Sharifi

The film will be followed by a conversation on the theme of memory, resistance and identity – the personal as politics in “My Stolen Planet”. Fataneh Farahani, professor at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religion and Gender Studies at Stockholm University, and Roxy Farhat, artist and filmmaker, will participate in the conversation.

Fataneh Farahani will, based on her research, talk about women’s stories, about memory and resistance that take place in homes. Roxy Farhat will highlight the cinematic aspects; how documentary film can use informal archives to retell and remember.

The conversation will be moderated by Javera Rizvi Kabani, Swedish Institute.

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Farahnaz Sharifi, My Stolen Planet, 2024
Farahnaz Sharifi, My Stolen Planet, 2024

The Film Club: My Stolen Planet is presented in collaboration with Salam Cinema