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National Premiere, Glory of Documentary: Self-Portrait, 2025

Paikar

派卡尔

Director Dawood Hilmandi

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Dutch-Afghan filmmaker Dawood Hilmandi sets out on a perilous inner journey. Travelling through Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, he opens up to his ageing father, an imam haunted by the past, whose deepest wounds are bound up with the family's hurried flight from a war zone. Retracing their old escape route, Dawood finds this cross-border pilgrimage turning into an inner struggle as he tries to make peace with his identity and faith and confront trauma, wounds passed between generations that come not only from conflict outside but also from within the family. This sincere and finely felt story touches on the complexities of identity, displacement and the bond between father and son.

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Screenings2

Fri, 10/23

10:00End time to be confirmed

Screen 5, Changjiang Cinema, Starry Community (Hanghuicheng)

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Sat, 10/24

13:00End time to be confirmed

Screen 6, Changjiang Cinema, Starry Community (Hanghuicheng)

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Director: Dawood Hilmandi
Country/Region: Netherlands, Afghanistan, Iran
Year: 2025
Length: 98min
Section: Glory of Documentary: Self-Portrait
Edition: West Lake International Documentary Festival 2026, No. 8
Original language: Dari
Premiere: National Premiere
Selection: Official selection
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