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Christine

Type:
Documentary

Director:
Mohammad Jafari

Year:
1999

Time:
50 minutes

Language:
Farsi with English subtitles

 

Winner! — Best Documentary, Feast of Cinema
Official Selection — Thessalonki Documentary Film Festival

 
Ordering Information
Available for online sale
Available for online sale
   

While a teenager, Christine learned that she was adopted as an infant by her Swedish parents. Now 40 and working as a psychologist in the USA, she returns to Iran in search of her birth parents.

Iranian newspapers print her story, and an astonished Christine arrives at the Tehran airport to a throng of families, all claiming to be her rightful kin.

Not surprisinigly, genealogical closure proves elusive, but Christine's quest quickly morphs into a chronicle of unsettled and unsettling familiar histories, all stemming from the abandonment of baby girls. Understated yet startling in its revelations, Christine is a documentary you won't want to miss.

This film is available with a Digital Site License (DSL), which allows colleges, universities, or libraries to encode, locally host, and stream the film to their community on a closed, password-protected system.

Rental Information
This film is available from AFD for public screenings and television broadcast. For information regarding rental rates and formats, please contact [email protected] for institutional/non-theatrical screenings, or [email protected] for theatrical, festival, television, or other bookings.

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