Des rêves sans étoiles

PRIX CERCLE D’OR MEILLEUR DOCUMENTAIRE, UNE PRÉSENTATION DE TV5

Grand Prix Nanook – Festival International Jean Rouch 2016, Paris
Prix Amnesty International – Festival International du film de Berlin 2016

Starless Dreams plunges us into the lives of young teenage girls sharing temporary quarters at a juvenile detention center on the outskirts of Tehran. Director Mehrdad Oskouei, one of Iran’s most prominent filmmakers, spent seven years securing access to this all-female facility. As the New Year approaches, the girls bond, and reveal—with playfully disarming honesty—the circumstances and acts that resulted in their incarceration. They have killed their father, robbed a bank, or were arrested for carrying 651 grams of cocaine. Outside the prison walls, danger is everywhere, even within their own families.

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