Qeshm - La vallée des Etoiles

There are uprootings from which one never recovers, which tear families apart for generations. Shady Nafar tells us about this rift. Torn between East and West, lulled by her exiled father's stories of Iran, she long fantasized about, feared, and dreamed of returning to her Iranian family's homeland, which she eventually did as an adult. Carried by a finely crafted text, she delivers an intimate and sensitive account. A story of heritage, discoveries, and the safeguarding of memory. On stage, father and daughter – long isolated from each other by a context of political events over which they have no control – converse in an intertwining of words, silences, and glances, finding each other again in a moving way.

"The writer B. Rinkel notes: Family without an m gives Faille (rift). I realize that in my case there was never an m. I am looking for the m. I am in the rift. Rift: fracture of the Earth's crust, accompanied by the sliding of separated parts. By finding this m, three small bridges, I seal the breach, I connect myself, I find her again… the family." Shady Nafar