Phase Eight
فاز هشت

 

Iran/Germany 2016
14 ' 55 min

directed by Nader Farahwaschy
with Amin Seqatchi


In search for the graveyard of his grandfather, situated north of Tehran, Amins journey consits of a labyrinth of roads, adresses, questions, dubious answers and people, guiding his way to the place he had been as a child.

After his journey seems to have finally reached its goal, he is confronted with a disturbing discovery: the area of the graveyard has been turned into a surreal housing project, initiated by the former president Ahmadinejad. 118 huge skelettonlike, still uninhibited towers,  have replaced the tombstones of bygone times. In order to have at least some kind of encounter with his grandfather, Amin enters one of the towers by midnight. The unfinished cement and brick walls inside the apartment, will be the closest to his grandfather he will get.