The Vanishing Point - Bani Khoshnoudi

Exiled from Iran after the ban on her 2009 film about the Green Movement, a filmmaker breaks her family’s decades-long silence about a disappeared cousin, executed during the 1988 purges in political prisons. Intertwining her personal history with that of her country, she translates an inextinguishable thirst for freedom, and a scream that echoes long after the end of this poignant film. 

Bani Khoshnoudi is an Iranian filmmaker and visual artist whose work spans documentary and fiction films, as well as visual and photographic installations. Her works explore the history of modern Iran and the layered narratives and experiences of exile and migration. Her film The Silent Majority Speaks (2009), a political fresco spanning a century of Iranian resistance, was banned in both Lebanon and Iran. Khoshnoudi was invited to take part to the main exhibition of the 60th Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. The Vanishing Point premiered at Visions du Réel Festival and was awarded the Burning Lights Jury Award.