Past Future Continuous

Maryam fled Iran at the age of twenty, wrapped in a sheepskin, hidden among a flock crossing the mountainous border between Iran and Turkey. The revolution had just triumphed, and her politically active friends had been imprisoned or executed. Her family decided to save her at any cost. Maryam left Iran — and never returned. In Iran, with the help of her friends, Maryam installs surveillance cameras in the house where her parents still live: a flickering connection to the past, projected on a screen in her American home. When the internet in Iran is cut off, the images freeze or disappear, severing Maryam’s bond with her homeland. Past and present merge and blur. A poetic and moving story of exile, memory, and the hidden ties to places one can no longer return to places that can only be revisited in dreams, through technology and nostalgia. Morteza Ahmadvand, Firouzeh Khosrovani Iran, Italy, Norway