This film starts with a musical album titled Rhymes and Songs, produced in 1980 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, as well as to highlight the cultures of its member countries and help bring them together. Based on a colossal body of research, this rigorous and fascinating film shows how this intergovernmental organization approaches building solidarity between its founding countries, while bolstering oil as a powerful political influence in the fight for liberation in the Global South, including in Palestine. With panache, artist and researcher Sanaz Sohrabi brings together a variety of visual archives in this work that aesthetically resembles a collage and that analyzes the collective trajectory of an unfulfilled utopia. (HSB)
Co-presented with Esse arts et opinion
Quebec Premiere
competition : New Visions Competition
An Incomplete Calendar
- Country : Canada (Quebec), Iran, Turkey, Venezuela
- Year : 2026
- V.O : Arabic, Spanish, Persian, English
- Subtitles : French or English
- Duration : 77 MIN
- Cinematography : Ignacio Márquez
- Cinematography : Omar Mohamed
- Cinematography : Siavash Naghshbandi
- Editing : Muhammad Nour El-Khairy
- Editing : Sanaz Sohrabi
- Production : Nuri Cem Erbak
- Production : Cenk Ünalerzen
- Production : Burak Çevik
- Production : Sanaz Sohrabi
- Music : Jeremy Leon
- Sound Design : Chris Leon
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Script for Groundless Images (2018)
Notes on Seeing Double (2018)
One Image, Two Acts (2020)
Scenes of Extraction (2023)
Cinéma du Réel | FICCI Cartagena International Film Festival | Open City Documentary Film Festival | Habitar el Cine Caracas International Contemporary Film Festival | Festival Ciné-Palestine | BlackStar Film Festival. United States | DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival. Kosovo | Vancouver International Film Festival. Canada | Valdivia International Film Festival | Doclisboa International Film Festival
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