The Sea Runs Thru My Veins

The Sea Runs Thru My Veins

Zara Zandieh

DE
2018
Experimental, Short film
21’
desired! – film lust & queer

Four protagonists talk about their ideas of happiness, which are closely linked to perspectives of queerness and experiences with migration. Faced with very different challenges and coming from very different backgrounds, they share their views on the meaning of happiness in their lives. They live in Berlin today, but all moved there from different places and for different reasons.

Director / Script / Cinematography / Editing

Zara Zandieh

Sound

Azadeh Zandieh, Gizem Oruç

Sounddesign / Music

Azadeh Zandieh

Cast

Llanquiray Valioska Painemal Morales, Sabuha Salam, Amir Zandieh, Neomi Ilan

Performers

Anh Thu Nguyen, Mathilde Manon, Sara Mikolai, Sofia Hamaz, Yordanos Afewerki

Contact

Zara Zandieh

Portrait of Zara Zandieh

Zara Zandieh

Zara Zandieh is an independent film-maker who specialises in visual art and works as a camerawoman*. Zandieh’s work is defined by her decolonial queer perspective. She focuses on omissions, complexities and representations of marginalised subjects. The stories she heard as a child from her parents and grandparents, which always began with the sentence »Once upon a time there was …., and once upon a time there was not…«, permeate her work today, distinguishing it from common Western narratives.


Films by Zara Zandieh (Selection)
Love-Irruptions 2016 | Khoshbakhti 2015 | under-construction 2013 | Fragments of Ava 2012 | Such a strange time it is, my dear.. 2007 | close-distance 2006