My stolen Planet

My Stolen Planet is a quiet and deeply personal documentary by Iranian filmmaker
Farahnaz Sharifi. By creating a montage of private video recordings, diary entries, and found archival material, Sharifi traces the coming-of-age of a woman in a system that controls and constraints women’s freedom. It is a life under constant surveillance – secretly driven by a desire for self-determination. In a scene where women dance in an apartment – secretly, yet self-determined, exuberant and for a moment unobserved – Sharifi makes palpable how female memory, bodies, and small moments in everyday life quietly transform into subversive acts of resistance. The film is an intimate testimony about women whose country and future have been stolen from them.

Iranian director, screenwriter and editor Farahnaz Sharifi has been living in exile since 2022.