Trailer - Where Is The Friend´s Home? (Short Film 2023)
Short Documentary Film (Released) | Completion Year 2022
Genre Hybrid Auto-ethnographic Experimental | Runtime 11 Min | Language English, Farsi
Status Sound Design and Mix, Color Grading
© Amina Maher
Sound: 5.1 Surround Mix, Stereo | Frame Rate: 25 | Color, 16:9 HD | Germany
March 2023
1. 61st Ann Arbor Int. Film Festival USA - WORLD/AMERICAN PREMIERE
2. 23th International Feminist & Queer Festival Red Dawns, Slovenja
3. 33rd Onion City Experimental Film Festival - Chicago USA
April 2023
1. Porn F. F. Vienna
2. Porto Femme
Some Other Screenings:
1. 26th Guanajuato Int. Film Festival Mexico - Latin American Premiere
2. 35th New Fest New York LGBTQIA+ Int. Film Fesitval - New York Premiere
3. 39th Frauen Film Festival - German Premiere
4. 17th TLV Fest - Tel Aviv Int. LGBTQIA+ Int. Film Festival - Israel
5. 28th Cheries-cheris - Paris Gay, Lesbian, Trans Film Festival - France
6. 40th Outfest Swana - Outfest Los Angeles - USA
7. 23rd Nickel Independent Film Festival - Labrador-USA
Watch the Trailer
Where Is The Friend´s Home? (Dok 12Min)
The film is shot in one day and a half on the 20th and 21st of June 2019.
There was so much energy behind this film.
It is made for the second run of the application, the entrance exam to study back then for my Master in Film Directing at Film Uni of Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.
We were given the theme of intimacy to create a short film of approximately 5 minutes within two weeks.
The idea, script, shooting, and editing had been made in 2 weeks in 2019.
Then later on we began to edit the film. Back then first I thought I might use its material for my first feature but then we realized it is a separate short film for itself.
There are a lot of stories behind this short work.
It was supposed to have its premiere in 2021 with selections that got canceled.