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Sundance-Winning Iranian Filmmaker’s ‘Rainy Dreams’ Explores Children’s Nightmares Amid Displacement at Hong Kong Financing Forum
- Rainy Dreams, a France-Iran co-production by Mohammad Shams Alireza Ghasemi, debuts at HAF with live-action and animation.
- The film follows five unaccompanied minors in Calais, whose dreams become animated sequences.
- Ghasemi notes dreams shift after moving from Iran to France, influencing the film's themes of fear and uncertainty.
- Rainy Dreams aims to reflect how displacement shapes inner life and sleep across cultures.
- Producers Mojean Aria and Constance Le Scouarnec emphasize dehumanization and the need for humanizing storytelling.
- The project seeks international financing and co-production partners across France, Iran, and the U.S.
- Rainy Dreams has a multilingual production plan including English, French, Dinka, Kurdish, Vietnamese, and more.
- Ghasemi's previous work includes 'In the Land of Brothers' which premiered at Sundance 2024.
- Hong Kong forum is a key venue for international financing and industry partners for the project.
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