Revolutionary Memories of Bahman who loved Leila (2012)
★★½ — Revolutionary Memories of Bahman who loved Leila (2012)
Farahnaz Sharifi is an Iranian documentary filmmaker, perhaps best known for her later feature-length work, and this animated short represents an early, more personal side of her output. Set against the revolutionary fervour of Tehran in 1978, the film uses the period immediately preceding the Islamic Revolution as its backdrop, a moment of enormous historical rupture that has generated a complicated creative legacy among Iranian and Iranian-diaspora filmmakers. At just fifteen minutes, it is a modest but pointed piece, notable for its hand-crafted visual style and its choice to frame political upheaval through private grief and romantic longing rather than through ideology or spectacle. The Iraq production credit reflects the kind of cross-border, low-resource independent filmmaking common to short festival work of this period.
A-Z World Movie Tour Iraq I originally watched 16/03 but it was so catastrophically bad I decided I better watch another film. This short film was what I chose. Perfect length for the story. Loved the art style and narration. Love the animation. Overall a great love story from the perspective of a dead revolutionary.
Rating: ★★½ | Year: 2012 | Watched: 2025-06-30
Where to watch (UK)
Stream: DocAlliance Films
Physical: Amazon UK
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