Hitch : An Iranian Story

Documentary film by Chowra Makaremi

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71 minutes / Documentary / 2019

Produced by Alter Ego

recipient of the SCAM « Brouillon d’un Rêve » grant
This film received support from the Documentary School of Lussas – Ardèche Images and was produced within the framework of the Collection Primavera – Association Lumière du Mondee
with scriptwriting, development and reinforced development support from the CNC (National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image)-FAIA
with development support from Ciclic / Region of Centre-Val de Loire and Procirep-Angoa
with production support from Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS), CNRS, LabEx TEPSIS (Transformation de l’Etat, Politisation des Sociétés, Institution du Social) and the European Research Council’s research and innovation programme « Horizon 2020 »
this film was 
in residence with Périphérie – Centre de création cinématographique as part of its partnership with the Seine-Saint-Denis Department

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« Hitch : An Iranian Story " intertwines history with family stories after the Iranian revolution of 1979, its betrayals and its consequences. The film is an insider look into the experience of political violence, and how it feeds representations, images, speeches and the things unsaid. The daughter of an opponent to the Islamic Republic who was imprisoned, tortured and killed, the filmmaker resists political negationism by bringing out the extermination of Iranian opponents through the presence of objects and the persistence of memory.

Festival awards :

• Festival Jean Rouch – Comité du film ethnographique, France 2019 I Award for a First Film
• Les Écrans Documentaires, France 2019 I High School Students’ Prize
• Rendez-vous de l’histoire de Blois, France 2020 I Special mention
• Rencontres Internationales Sciences et cinéma (RISC), France 2021 I Award for best feature film

Festival Selections:

• États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas, 2019 I France
• Festival Jean Rouch – Comité du film ethnographique, 2019 I France
• Les Écrans Documentaires, 2019 I France
• Images en bibliothèque, 2020 I France
• Cinéma(s) d’Iran, 2020 I France
• Festival Le Grand Bivouac, 2020 I France
• Doc Cévennes, 2020 I France
• Rendez-vous de l’histoire de Blois, 2020 I France
• Festival des à-côtés, 2020 I France
• Crossing Europe Film Festival, 2020 I Austria
• Rencontres Cinématographiques de Béjaïa, 2020 I Algeria
• FIDBA, 2020 I Argentina
• Rencontres Internationales Sciences et cinéma (RISC), 2021 I France
• German International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2022 I Germany
• Festival du cinéma des Utopies Réelles, 2025 I France

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