Blind, into the Eye

Directors:

Atefeh Kheirabadi
; Mehrad Sepahnia

Blind, into the Eye reflects on the deliberate blinding of protesters in Iran in 2022/23. In the montage, subjective and documentary traces intertwine in a cinematic search for the political power of seeing and the attack on the visible itself.

Details

Duration: 20min.

Country: Germany, Iran

Language: Persian, Arabic (Overview), Kurdish, German

Year: 2025

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Topic: Body, Capitalism, Cinema, Colonialism, Discrimination, Documentary, Exile, Experimental, Feminism, War

Cast & Crew

Directors:

Atefeh Kheirabadi;
Mehrad Sepahnia

Production company: Realillusion Kheirabadi and Sepahnia GbR

Writer: Mehrad Sepahnia and Atefeh Kheirabadi

Cinematographer: Marius Kast

Editor: Mehrad Sepahnia and Atefeh Kheirabadi

Actors: Tanasgol Sabbagh

Festivals & Awards

2025-26

Locarno Film Festival Junior Jury Award/ Pardi di Domani

DMZ - International Documentary Film Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival

Interfilm - International Short Film Festival Berlin

Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao

Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis

Short Film Festival Cologne (KFFK)

International Short Film Week Regensburg

Hamburg Short Film Festival

Filmfest Dresden

Cork Film Festival

Sheffield DocFest

Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt

Vienna Shorts

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