Synopsis
Before the Iranian Revolution, an ancestral home gradually transforms into a house-museum, filled with ancient artifacts collected over decades. An Iranian archaeologist awaits the return of his French wife from a long journey. As the rooms fill with objects, the revolution reaches the walls of the house, bringing the turmoil of the outside world inside. Amid the uncertainty, the couple struggles to preserve both their relationship and the memories embedded in the house.
This documentary is a silent triptych made without dialogue, draws on thirty years of archived letters exchanged between the couple, offering a poetic and contemplative reflection on how personal and historical memories intertwine, and how spaces become repositories of both private and collective histories.This film is a quiet form of resistance.
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Director
Maryam Shapoorian
Born in 1979, Maryam Shapoorian began making films at 15, experimenting with 8mm formats and crafting voiceovers for short films. Her passion for cinema deepened at the Tehran University of Art, where hands-on experience with 16mm filmmaking at the Faculty of Cinema and Theatre laid the foundation for a lifelong commitment to storytelling.Over the years, she has engaged in a quiet dialogue with audiences through layered, fragmented, and sometimes unfinished ideas, shaped in the edit room. She is, in her own words, “an eternal editor.” Her debut feature, Just Between Us, marks a significant shift - a film that balances observation and narration, and represents her first steps toward a new cinematic language for engaging with the world.
