4211 km - Aïla Navidi - Tournée

4211 kmWritten and directed by Aïla Navidi, “4211 km” is a true theatrical gem, a profound reflection on uprooting, heritage and identity, performed by striking actors.

“4211 km” is the distance between Paris and Tehran, the very distance travelled by Mina and Fereydoun, who came to seek refuge in France after a revolution that was stolen from them. Yalda, their daughter, born in Paris, tells us her story.

Their life in exile, their fight for freedom, their love of a country and the hope of a return. Yalda guides us between her two worlds: her family, dreamers, survivors, heroes who never complain, and the outside world in which she desperately searches for her place.

How do you live with this inheritance in a society at the opposite end from her culture and ideals? She opens up about the weight of the past, her sense of the duty of memory, her anger, her anxieties, that bottomless longing to go to Iran, her quest for identity.

It is the story of an inheritance that one loves and hates, the story of men and women seeking to carve out a new path.