At the height of the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1982, 1.5 million Afghans took a long journey to the border of Iran to flee war. Taghi, born after that generation, is unwilling to inherit the limitations of his parents’ refugee status, and navigates outside the family’s protective walls to trace his identity and to repatriate to the homeland he never knew. The Silhouettes is a movie about belonging, identity, separation and connecting to your roots in order to reconcile with the future.
Afsaneh Salari is an Iranian director, producer and editor. She received her BA in Editing from Tehran University of Art, an MA in Creative Directing from the Paris 8 University, and an MA in Documentary Directing from Docnomads. Salari is the co-founder of the Docmaniacs collective of filmmakers in Iran. In her films she explores human conditions on societies’ peripheries. Immigration, war, laborers, and old age are some of the topics she focuses on.
