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Blind, ins Auge
Blind, into the eye

new film type documentary film, experimental film Production Country Germany, Iran (Islamic Republic of) production year 2025 runtime 19'47 colour Color,
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo original-language Arabic, German, Farsi, Kurdish subtitles German, English

BLIND, INTO THE EYE reflects on the deliberate blinding of protesters in Iran in 2022 and 2023. In the montage, subjective and documentary traces intertwine in a cinematic search for the political power of seeing and the attack on the visible itself.

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Blind, ins Auge Blind, ins Auge Blind, ins Auge
director Atefeh Kheirabadi, Mehrad Sepahnia Production Kolja Volkmar, Julian Gerchow, Atefeh Kheirabadi, Mehrad Sepahnia Script Atefeh Kheirabadi, Mehrad Sepahnia Editing Atefeh Kheirabadi, Mehrad Sepahnia DOP Marius Kast Cast Tanasgol Sabbagh Sound Design Robin Harff
Festivals
2025 Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland (Junior Jury Preis Pardi di Domani)
2025 Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada
2025 DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival, Goyang, Paju, Korea (Republic of)
2025 Cork Film Festival, Ireland
2025 ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain
2025 interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2025 KFFK - Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
Production
  • Realillusion Kheirabadi und Sepahnia GbR
  • Atefeh Kheirabadi
  • https://www.mehratefe.com
Distribution
  • Realillusion Kheirabadi und Sepahnia GbR
  • Atefeh Kheirabadi
  • https://www.mehratefe.com
Sales
  • Realillusion Kheirabadi und Sepahnia GbR
  • Atefeh Kheirabadi
  • https://www.mehratefe.com

Atefeh Kheirabadi

Atefeh Kheirabadi was born 1990 in Teheran, Iran. Since 2010 together with Mehrad Sepahnia, working there as an experimental filmmaker. She studied social communication at the Teheran University and media studies at the Humboldt University Berlin, where she was awarded her MA.

Filmography
2013 Erlöser
2017 Soma, Haoma
2018 3xƐ
2019 Différance
2019 Futur is Feminin
2020 Come and Go
2023 7+1 Fragmente
2024 Blick - نگاه
2025 Blind, ins Auge

Portrait of Atefeh Kheirabadi

Mehrad Sepahnia

Mehrad Sepahniam, born 1986 in Teheran, Iran. Since 2008 working there as an experimental filmmaker, from 2010 together with Atefeh Keirabadi. Mehrad Sepahnia studied filmmaking at Shahroud and media design in sound and images in Berlin. Now they work together in Berlin as experimental filmmakers.

Filmography
2010 Flesh
2013 Erlöser
2015 One Night in the City
2016 ɐfaringean
2017 Soma, Haoma
2018 3xƐ
2019 Différance
2019 Futur is Feminin
2020 Come and Go
2023 7+1 Fragmente
2024 Blick - نگاه
2025 Blind, ins Auge

Portrait of Mehrad Sepahnia