Sillage: Portrait of an Onlooker
TITLE
Sillage: Portrait of an Onlooker
DIRECTOR
Farhad Delaram
COUNTRY
Germany, Iran
YEAR
2022
DURATION
22′
GENRE
Fiction
Sillage: Portrait of an Onlooker
A reserved practical nurse moonlights as an Uber driver only to encapsulate his female passengers' scent. Then in his dreams, he reaches orgasm using the fragrance until one night he witnesses a rape happening outside his apartment...
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Farhad Delaram
Farhad Delaram was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1988. He graduated from the University of Tehran with a master's degree in cinema. Besides working as an independent filmmaker, he has a 14-year-long career working as a screenplay writer. Farhad has made seven independent short films (as director, writer, cinematographer, editor, and sound editor). His last fiction short film, "Tattoo", was screened in more than 60 international film festivals winning the Crystal Bear at the 69th Berlinale in the Generation 14plus section, among numerous other awards. He is currently living in Berlin in a fellowship program hosted by Akademie der Künste where his last experimental film was screened for two months to the public.
- Director Farhad Delaram
- Screenplay Farhad Delaram
- Cinematography Tobias Kaufmann
- Editing Sasan Khoshniat
- Cast Maximillian Brauer, Lou Strenger, Franziska Benkel
- Producer/s Ilhan Shah
- Production Company Ilhan Shah Film Production
- Distributor/s Lights On Film
- Project Title Sillage: Portrait of an Onlooker
- Project Type Fiction
- Completion Date January 1, 2022
- Country of origin Germany
- Country of filming Germany
- Language German
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Farhad Delaram
Farhad Delaram was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1988. He graduated from the University of Tehran with a master's degree in cinema. Besides working as an independent filmmaker, he has a 14-year-long career working as a screenplay writer. Farhad has made seven independent short films (as director, writer, cinematographer, editor, and sound editor). His last fiction short film, "Tattoo", was screened in more than 60 international film festivals winning the Crystal Bear at the 69th Berlinale in the Generation 14plus section, among numerous other awards. He is currently living in Berlin in a fellowship program hosted by Akademie der Künste where his last experimental film was screened for two months to the public.
Tirana International Film Festival
Divergent Minds, Panorama Competition, 2022
