I Am Trying to Remember

“Why have they erased you?” He said: “Maybe they are scared.” I said: “Whoever is scared, should erase themselves.” He said: “In that case, the faces of the living would all be gone and only the dead would remain.”

In this evocative, beautifully realised short, director Ahangarani looks through old photographs, videos, and vivid recollections to summon a fragmented memory of a once-beloved family friend, the Iranian revolution, and the ghosts it left behind.