Farideh, an Iranian woman who had been abandoned in a holy shrine in Iran when she was six-months old and adopted by a Dutch couple, overcomes her fears and starts a personal journey to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her biological family.
Directed by: Azadeh Moussavi, Kourosh Ataee
Production Year: 2018
Country: Iran
Length: 88 minutes
Credits
Director: Azadeh Moussavi, Kourosh Ataee
Producers: Azadeh Moussavi, Kourosh Ataee
Cinematographer: Mohamad Hadadi
Production Designer: Mehdi Mousavi
Editor: Hamid Najafirad
Music: Afshin Azizi
Sound Design: Ensieh Maleki
Cast
Eline Farideh Koning
Finding Farideh
Iran | 2018 | 88 min | Unclassified 15+
SYNOPSIS
Finding Farideh is a feature-length documentary about an Iranian girl named Farideh, who had been abandoned in a holy shrine In Iran when she was 6 months old In 1976, and then she got adopted by a Dutch couple and left Iran to the Netherlands to start her new life. Her parents promised to take her to Iran when she turns 18, but it never happened because they always thought that Iran is a dangerous country to go. Now, she overcomes her fears and starts a personal journey to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her biological family and to find out about her Iranian identity and culture.
FESTIVALS
2019 Los Angeles Film Awards
2019 Iran Cinema Celebration
2019 Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema
2018 Cinema Vérité International Documentary Film Festival
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