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.
“With forced migration, the family enters a world governed by a different set of rules, where things no longer work as they used to. What appears from the outside to be a form of escape can, from within, feel like a kind of collapse. Distance from home makes the distance between family members visible. It reopens old wounds. Crisis challenges the image they have of one another. It is as if migration does not only change their physical location; it also displaces their understanding of home, family, and even self,” he continued.
