South of Tehran

Name: South of Tehran
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-09-29
Duration: 8 min
Cast: Jafar Panahi

You Should Never Take Cinema For Granted

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Release Date

9/29/2026

Runtime

8 mins

Genres

Documentary

Overview

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi recalls the cinephilia of his youth from the surreal remove of the 2025 New York Film Festival. This is the first film in an annual initiative titled NYFF Encounters, a commissioning program that invites one filmmaker with a film in the New York Film Festival to create an original short during the course of the festival. Selected by the festival’s Artistic Director and programming team, the participating filmmaker will produce a short film shot at least in part at NYFF.

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Original Language

Portuguese

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A poetic meditation on how cinema shaped a filmmaker's soul, captured in a brief, intimate moment at a festival. Panahi reflects on the pull of cinephilia from the distance of exile and time.