Iranian director Mohsen Gharaei, who is at the Venice Film Festival with well-received drama “Falling House,” is set to shoot a new film titled “Centrifugal Force” that will capture “the impossible choices facing a generation of Iranians today,” as the synopsis puts it.
“Falling House,” which world-premiered on Wed. in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar, follows a modest family on the outskirts of Tehran who faces the imminent destruction of their home as part of a vast redevelopment project. Rashid, the patriarchal father and a prison guard, attempts to contain family rebellion while being accused of corruption.
“Centrifugal Force,” which will be shot in an undisclosed location outside Iran in Farsi and English with still unspecified Iranian and international actors, will be “a deeply human story about what happens when the home you love is no longer a place you can return to,” Gharaei said in his directors’ statement.
“After finishing my latest film, I found myself on an unexpected journey from one geography to another,” Gharaei, who is now living as an exile outside Iran, added. “But migration is not simply a matter of moving from one place to another; it is a moment when a person is suddenly pushed out of the center of their own life. The journey becomes most painful when departure is not a choice, when all familiar paths close, one by one, and suddenly you have to leave a home that you still love.”
