This year’s retrospective explores the work of filmmaker, visual artist, and archivist Bani Khoshnoudi. Filmmaker, visual artist and archivist Bani Khoshnoudi has been directing documentaries, fiction films and experimental short films for over twenty years, as well as creating installations and performing.
This unique program spans the entirety of her career, allowing us to discover a rising artist who is already one of the most relevant contemporary documentarians of her generation.
Her work explores several topics that are significant to our present day, such as exile, displacement, memory, violence, solidarity and the fight for freedom. Her documentaries cover the social and political events of the past two decades in Iran. They paint a sensitive portrait of Iranian society, revealing the tension between the aspirations of a people looking for change and the rigid framework of a regime that imposes restrictions and repression. Shot in part in France and Mexico, where she lives in exile, her films have a resolutely political bent and evolve through the constant exploration of cinema’s narrative and aesthetic possibilities, all while maintaining a remarkable artistic coherence.
In addition to her films, Bani Khoshnoudi will propose the installation Scaffold, and what time has taught us, present a conference on her cinematic process, and participate in discussions after each screening of her films. She will also participate in the Regards croisés project, organized by the Cinéma du Musée, in which she will engage in a dialogue with filmmaker Miryam Charles and her work. Regards croisés is a project made possible by the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
Lessons in Cinema : Bani Khoshnoudi
FREEAs part of the retrospective Bani Khoshnoudi: Territories of Memory, the filmmaker will trace her career, illustrated with excerpts from her...
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Scaffold, and what time has taught us (2012-2026)
FREEImages from a not-so-distant past… Images in repetition of a painful present. Scaffold is a 2-channel installation first shown in 2012, at a...
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A PEOPLE IN THE SHADOWS
- Bani Khoshnoudi
- 2008
- Iran, Netherlands
- s.t. French and English
- 92 min
CEM
- Bani Khoshnoudi
- 2013
- France
- 5 min
EL CHINERO, UN CERRO FANTASMA
- Bani Khoshnoudi
- 2022
- Mexico, France
- s.t. French and English
- 11 min
ELEGY FOR THE FORGOTTEN, ON AN ENDLESS WAR
- Bani Khoshnoudi
- 2026
- Iran, France
- s.t. French and English
- 23 min
LUCIÉRNAGAS
- Bani Khoshnoudi
- 2018
- Mexico, Greece, Dominican Republic
- s.t. French and English
- 96 min
SAP
- Bani Khoshnoudi
- 2022
- Mexico, France, United States
- s.t. French
- 18 min
THE SILENT MAJORITY SPEAKS
- Bani Khoshnoudi
- 2010
- Iran, Netherlands
- s.t. French and English
- 94 min
THE VANISHING POINT
- Bani Khoshnoudi
- 2025
- Iran, United States, France
- s.t. French and English
- 104 min