We are delight\u00aded that I PLANT MY HAND IN THE GARDEN (direction\/\u200bscreenplay: Hoda Taheri & Boris Had\u017ei\u00adja, pro\u00adduc\u00adtion: Max\u00adi\u00adm\u00adil\u00adian Feld\u00adkamp) will have its world pre\u00admiere at the 83rd Venice Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval (La Bien\u00adnale di Venezia). Boris Had\u017ei\u00adja\u2019s DFFB grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion film has been invit\u00aded to the main com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion of Gior\u00adnate degli Autori (Venice Days), one of the fes\u00adti\u00adval\u2019s most pres\u00adti\u00adgious sec\u00adtions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The film tells the sto\u00adry of Hoda, an Iran\u00adian refugee liv\u00ading in Berlin, and Boris, a queer man from Ser\u00adbia. Togeth\u00ader they decide to mar\u00adry and raise a child. As fam\u00adi\u00adly expec\u00adta\u00adtions, bureau\u00adcrat\u00adic hur\u00addles and per\u00adson\u00adal expe\u00adri\u00adences increas\u00ading\u00adly shape their plans for the future, they begin to ques\u00adtion what fam\u00adi\u00adly actu\u00adal\u00adly means and whether new ways of liv\u00ading togeth\u00ader beyond soci\u00adetal norms are pos\u00adsi\u00adble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoda Taheri and Boris Had\u017ei\u00adja met at the DFFB. Dur\u00ading their stud\u00adies, they made a num\u00adber of short films togeth\u00ader, which screened at the Locarno Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval and the Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval Rot\u00adter\u00addam, among oth\u00aders. I PLANT MY HAND IN THE GARDEN is their fea\u00adture debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Draw\u00ading on auto\u00adbi\u00ado\u00adgraph\u00adi\u00adcal expe\u00adri\u00adences, I PLANT MY HAND IN THE GARDEN moves along the bor\u00adder between fic\u00adtion and real\u00adi\u00adty. The film explores ques\u00adtions of belong\u00ading, fam\u00adi\u00adly and iden\u00adti\u00adty, and turns its atten\u00adtion to peo\u00adple who have to rede\u00adfine their place with\u00adin exist\u00ading soci\u00adetal struc\u00adtures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We warm\u00adly con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adlate the entire team on this extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary invi\u00adta\u00adtion and wish the film a suc\u00adcess\u00adful world pre\u00admiere in Venice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are delight\u00aded that I PLANT MY HAND IN THE GARDEN (direction\/\u200b\u200bscreenplay: Hoda Taheri & Boris Had\u017ei\u00adja, pro\u00adduc\u00adtion: Max\u00adi\u00adm\u00adil\u00adian Feld\u00adkamp) will have its world pre\u00admiere at the 83rd Venice Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval (La Bien\u00adnale di Venezia). Boris Had\u017ei\u00adja\u2019s DFFB grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion film has been invit\u00aded to the main com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion of Gior\u00adnate degli Autori (Venice Days), one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":57933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n