VENICE 2025 Giornate degli Autori
EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Giornate degli Autori title Past Future Continuous
- Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani’s documentary is an exploration of exile, memory and the fragile bonds that connect us to places and loved ones we can no longer reach
In Past Future Continuous [+see also:
trailer
film profile], directors Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani interweave intimate family history with striking visual language to reflect on absence, longing and the silent voids created by exile. Through the story of Maryam – a woman who fled Iran and who maintains her only fragile connection with her homeland via surveillance cameras in her parents’ home – the filmmakers pose universal questions about belonging, distance and human connection.
The documentary, set to world-premiere in the Giornate degli Autori sidebar of the Venice Film Festival (27 August-6 September), promises to be “a poetic exploration of exile, memory and the fragile bonds that connect us to places and loved ones we can no longer reach.”
The feature is an Iranian-Norwegian-Italian effort produced by Fifi Film, Antipode Films and ZaLab Film with RAI Cinema, and in collaboration with ZDF/ARTE. Backers include the IDFA Bertha Fund, Visions Sud Est, Stichting Connected Foundation, Fritt Ord, Viken Filmsenter, Arts Council Norway, the Norwegian Film Institute, TorinoFilmLab and the MEDIA programme. Taskovski Films is selling it worldwide.
Check out our exclusive poster below:
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