Screening date:30-11-2013 -- 14:00
Stop-Over
Stop-Over is set in Athens, not so much a destination place, as much as a place of transition. Bakhtiari's real life stars are immigrants without papers who left Iran and travelled through Athens in order to get to other European countries.
Country: Switzerland/FranceYear: 2013
Production: Elisabeth Garbar & Heinz Dill/Louise Productions, Olivier Charvet & Sophie Germain/Kaléo Films
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Director: Kaveh Bakhtiari
Editing: Kaveh Bakhtiari, Charlotte Tourres & Sou Abadi
Cinematography: Kaveh Bakhtiari
Sound: Kaveh Bakhtiari & Etienne Curchod
DV – 100'
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biography
Swiss director Kaveh Bakhtiari was born in Tehran in 1979. He received a diploma from l'École cantonale d'art de Lausanne and has since made a number of short films that have been to numerous festivals. Stop-Over is his first feature length documentary, which screened at the Cannes Festival 2013 in the Directors' Fortnight.
Filmography
2007 - La Valise
2005 - Portrait chez Etienne
2002 - Les Mille mais Une nuit
2001 - L'Écrivain
2000 - L'Automne
2000 - Les Fouetteurs