71st edition. From 23 to 31 October 2026.
71st edition.
23/31 Oct. 2026

City of Poets

Sara Rajaei
Netherlands
 - 2024
Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets. The town’s psychogeography defines the mental and emotional state of its inhabitants, who live in a utopian illusion founded on poetry. When the system changes, and war begins, new neighbourhoods emerge to accommodate the refugees, and the existing street names are replaced by new ones. Abrupt and sweeping upheavals lead to confusion among the city’s residents, who soon find themselves lost amid the memories of the forgotten poets.
DIRECTOR
Sara Rajaei
SCREENPLAY
Sara Rajaei
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mohammad Mahdi Yaghobian
EDITOR
Nathalie Alonso Casale
SOUND
Milan Gataric
MUSIC
Milan Gataric
PRODUCTION
Manon Bovnkerk
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Near/by Film
NARRADOR
Voz en off: Sara Rajaei
RUNNING TIME
21 min.
TYPE
Cortometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
COUNTRY
Netherlands
DIRECTOR
Sara Rajaei
SCREENPLAY
Sara Rajaei
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mohammad Mahdi Yaghobian
EDITOR
Nathalie Alonso Casale
SOUND
Milan Gataric
MUSIC
Milan Gataric
PRODUCTION
Manon Bovnkerk
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Near/by Film
NARRADOR
Voz en off: Sara Rajaei
RUNNING TIME
21 min.
TYPE
Cortometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
COUNTRY
Netherlands

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