Realillusion

Synopsis

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The deliberate shooting of protesters in the eye during the 2022-23 protests in Iran points to particularly perfidious systematic repression. A duo of Iranian filmmakers in exile in Berlin take this as a ground line and ask the question: "What happens when security forces aim at vision itself?" Based on this, they reconstruct narratives of images taken from social media during the protests. The film presents the search in the montage process, in which the filmmakers combine their distanced, subjective narrative with the images of the protest in order to examine the power of the images of the protest as a political construct.​