Dreams’ Gate Documentary Film Enters 73rd Berlinale Iranian Girls Enter 73rd Berlinale With Dreams’ Gate
The documentary film “Dreams’ Gate” directed by Negin Ahmadi and produced by Elaheh Nobakht has entered the competition category of Generations at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival aka Berlinale, marking the world premiere of the film in question.
“Dreams’ Gate“, a documentary film directed by Negin Ahmadi and produced by Elaheh Nobakht, is a joint production of Iran, France, and Norway, set to have its world premiere in the Generations competition category of the 73rd Berlinale, vying for a prize along with films from various countries.
It took more than six years to make this film which narrates the story of an Iranian Kurdish girl searching for a part of her identity with her camera, amongst Kurdish girls in Kobani, women who not only rose against ISIS but waged a war for their world.
This time around, the filmmaker herself, along with her camera, accompanies the female warriors in their encounters with the surrounding world and the values they are fighting for. The company TasvirGostarElaheh Parsi (Eli Image) managed by ElahehNobakht has overtaken the production and international distribution of this film. This is the third time ElahehNobakht attends Berlinale as a producer, with last year’s feature-length film “The Apple Day” directed by Mahmoud Ghaffari.
The crew of “Dreams’ Gate” are the following:
- Director: Negin Ahmadi
- Producer: ElahehNobakht
- Screen play: Negin Ahmadi, FarzanehFathi
- Cinematographer: Negin Ahmadi
- Editing: LoghmanSokhanvar
- Music: Hossein Mirzagholi
- Sound: BehniaYousefi
- Color correction and laboratory: SamanMajdvafayi
- Syrian production manager: Taim Hussein
- International manager: Mina Alikhani
- Public Relations: Mansour Jahani
- Production: Iran, France, Norway/ 2023/ 64 min
- Coproduction: – France – Ava Stadios – HamidrezaTabarraei
- Norway: Spætt Film AS – Håvard Wettland Gossé
Synopsis:
DREAMS’ GATE is a documentary where Iranian female director Negin Ahmadi starts a personal journey into the combat zone of North Syria to question what it means to be a woman. Alone with her camera, she decides to look for an answer for her questions by encountering the women who embody the strongest contemporary myth of female strength and freedom: Kurdish female fighters. The personal search and internal struggles turn into an intimate women diary written in the first person. Following, sharing, witnessing the life of this other Kurdish women put into question the image that the director has of herself and of the cost of equality and freedom in this difficult region.
Presided by Mariette Rissenbeekwith artistic management by Carlo Chatrian, the 72nd Berlinale will be held from 16-26 February, 2022, consisting of competition sections such as Main Competition, Forum, Shorts, Documentary, and the non-competition category including Panorama, Special Screening, Berlin 2023 Generation, and Classic Cinema Screening.