The Journey of Maryam (2) • Directed by Sepideh Farsi • 2003

In search of the father she has not seen in years, Maryam travels to Tehran. The film is shot entirely from the vantage point of Maryam, the invisible heroine, who wanders the streets of her childhood with a photo of her father in hand, stopping only to ask those around her if they know the person in the photo. The slowness of this film not only gives the setting a sense of nostalgia but also creates pauses in which the audience has time to reflect on Maryam, her life, and her interactions with the people of Tehran.

This documentary is above all a poignant and poetic meditation on family bonds, the nature of memory, longing, loss, and the search for identity. The Journey of Maryam designates Sepideh Farsi’s universe as a poetical no-man’s land found somewhere between fiction and documentary, a place in which to explore the intricacies of cultural identity.

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