Shanghai Selection ‘Requiem for a Tribe,’ From Hot Docs Winner Marjan Khosravi, Aims to Give a Voice to Nomadic Iranian Women

Iranian filmmaker Marjan Khosravi, winner of multiple awards for her shorts, is bowing her first feature-length film, “Requiem for a Tribe,” at the Shanghai International Film Festival. The film is in the documentary competition and eligible for a Golden Goblet.

Khosravi has an awards-laden career. Earlier this year, she won awards at Hot Docs and Fribourg for her short documentary “Mrs. Iran’s Husband” and at Budapest for “The Dream of a Horse.” Her mid-length documentary “The Snow Calls” premiered at IDFA in 2020 and won a prize at the Big Sky documentary Film Festival.

“Requiem for a Tribe” follows Hajar, a 55-year-old woman from southwestern Iran’s Bakhtiari tribe who is betrayed by her family and forced to abandon a nomadic lifestyle.The film is set in a context where climate change, urbanization and social issues have drastically diminished the traditional migratory activities of the tribe.

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