See You Friday, Robinson!
France, Switzerland
2022
Director: Mitra Farahani
Writer: Mitra Farahani
Produced by: Hamidreza Pejman (Pejman Foundation)
Casa Azul Films، Écran noir productions، Shortcut Films
“We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another. Ebrahim can send me a letter this Friday, and I’ll answer him next Friday. So, see you Friday, Robinson!» And so, Jean-Luc Godard stages himself in his daily thought, wisely desperate, and sends images and words from Switzerland to the other side of the Channel. In his mansion in Sussex, Ebrahim Golestan tries to decode these UFO-messages and skillfully seeks to bring them back to the appearance of reason. And so on, until the day a veil falls over the two Gods on the run. Does the existence of poets still have any meaning in these times of distress?
Cinematic legend Jean-Luc Godard penned a letter to Iranian filmmaker and novelist Ebrahim Golestan. So began an epistolary and filmic relationship, captured by director Mitra Farahani, which held messages on language, cinema, politics, death and regret. As both artists grew increasingly isolated by age, Godard was 91, Golestan 100 — they established an invigorating and humorous long-distance companionship.
Awards:
Berlin International Film Festival 2022 – Encounters Award (Special Jury)
New Horizon Film Festival 2022 (Wroclaw) – Grand Prix
Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival 2022 (Mexico City) – Best Film Award
Mitra Farahani, born in 1975 in Tehran, is an Iranian director and painter living in Paris. In 2014, he was a judge at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
Mitra Farahani received his bachelor’s degree in graphics from Azad University in 1997 and went to France in 1999. Mitra won the Berlin Film Festival’s Teddy Award in 2002 for the film “Just One Woman”, and so far has made several documentaries, including “Fifi Howls from Happiness”, which was produced during the last days of the Iranian painter Bahman Mohases’ life and displayed the collection of works left by this artist for the first time.
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