NYFF shares the making of South of Tehran, its first Encounters commission

Film at Lincoln Center has published a discussion with Kleber Mendonça Filho and producer Emilie Lesclaux about South of Tehran, the first short made through NYFF Encounters. The October 6 release opens the festival conversation to viewers beyond the screening room.

Film at Lincoln Center has published a discussion with Kleber Mendonça Filho and producer Emilie Lesclaux about South of Tehran, the first short made through NYFF Encounters. The October 6 release opens the festival conversation to viewers beyond the screening room. The short grew from Mendonça Filho’s conversations

with Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi at the 2025 New York Film Festival. It reflects on cinema and memory, following an initiative inspired by Agnès Varda’s short about Pier Paolo Pasolini at the 1967 festival. NYFF Encounters commissions a filmmaker attending one edition to make a short that premieres the following

year. The festival has hosted South of Tehran’s world premiere and paired the two shorts with a conversation about their making. The newly published item is the discussion, rather than a new announcement of the film’s premiere. Read the official source. Image: Arin Sang-urai / Film at Lincoln Center.

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