MA VIE EN PAPIER

2022 | 80 min | VOSTA 

Country of origin of director : Iran à
Countries of production : Belgium, France
Country of recording : Belgium 

Screening followed by a discussion (in English) with Mariangel Betancourt-Diaz, Resource Coordinator at the Welcome Collective (a Montreal-based organization dedicated to asylum seekers). Discussion moderated by Jill Hanley, specialist in migration issues, professor of social work at McGill University and scientific director of the SHERPA University Institute.

SYNOPSIS :

In Brussels, Iranian artist and filmmaker Vida Dena meets Naseem, father of a Syrian family who fled the war. Between the walls of their precarious home, she dialogues with the two older children, Hala and Rima, through drawing. The small pieces of colored paper then animate the screen to tell the memories, dreams and destiny of this family living in exile.

Interreligious Prize of the International Competition of Visions du Réel – Nyon (2022).

BIOGRAPHY : 

Vida Dena is an Iranian female artist and filmmaker who is currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium. Born in 1984 in Tehran, she studied her bachelor in Architecture in Tehran and moved to Sweden in 2009 to continue her studies in Master of fine arts. She then moved to Brussels and in 2015 she got her master in film making from KASK school of arts in Gent. She is part of a collective called “Comment peut-on être persan?” as well as a multicultural audiovisual collective called “Ciclope” based on Brussels. “My paper life”is her first long documentary.