Faraz Fesharaki’s personal documentary is primarily composed from webcam recordings of Skype conversations with his parents in Isfahan and occasionally with a friend. The film intricately forms a genuine portrayal of a family separated by geography yet deeply intertwined through shared experiences and memories. The webcam witnessed it all: from the unusual snowfall in Isfahan to the stories of his mother's time in prison, and the father's insistence on hearing his son’s dreams from the night before. Fesharaki, recognized for his cinematography in Alexander Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? demonstrates his creativity as a filmmaker in this moving documentary, which had its world premiere at the Berlinale.

Faraz Fesharaki is an Iranian-German filmmaker and award-winning cinematographer living in Berlin. While studying Dramatic Literature and Film Studies at the Tehran University of Art, he attended Abbas Kiarostami's workshop and began making his own short films. In 2012, he started studying at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. His graduation film as a cinematographer, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? by Alexandre Koberidze, premiered in the Berlinale Competition in 2021, where it was awarded with the FIPRESCI prize, while Fesharaki was also nominated for Best Cinematography at the German Film Critic Awards. What did you dream last night, Parajanov? is his first feature length film as a director.

Available for online screening from 15 December