My Sleepless Friends
Director: Tara Najd Ahmadi
Country: Austria, Iran, Slovenia
Year: 2023
Length: 20'
Genre: documentary, experimental
Editing: Tara Najd Ahmadi, Jurij Meden
Sound design: Eduardo Raon
Producer: Tara Najd Ahmadi
Appearing: Sharzad Hadian, Jerome Dent, Parvin Ardalan, Elisabeth Streit, Ryan Conrath, Timna Šprah
Other: concept: Tara Najd Ahmadi
A short experimental documentary deals with insomnia as a common sociopolitical issue of the 21st century. It juxtaposes intimate conversations with night-life scenes to create a wider portrait of certain cracks in our times through which general unrest and unease are revealed.