23rd edition November 20th to 28th, 2026
23rd edition
20 to 28 November, 2026
Massoud Bakhshi worked as a screenwriter, producer, and film critic in the 1990s before moving behind the camera to direct the experimental documentary Tehran Has No More Pomegranates, which won numerous awards for Best Film and Best Director and was screened at more than 200 international festivals. His first feature-length fiction film, A Respectable Family, was presented in the Directors' Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes. His second, Yalda: A Night for Forgiveness, won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, among other festival awards, and was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival as well as more than 100 other festivals. All My Sisters, his third feature-length film, marks Bakhshi’s return to documentary filmmaking.
All My Sisters takes a look at how the young generation of Iranian women is being raised and shaped by their families and by society as a whole, with the intention of identifying sources of the revolts that are exploding today—and that are forcing the world to listen to the cries of a population demanding a different life from that of their elders. Above all, they hope for access to freedom—a wish expressed by the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” (from the original Kurdish “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi”). Based on a local story and a private family universe, this is a universal story of resistance and revolt.
Director Massoud Bakhshi
Producer Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck, Éric Lagesse, Mohammad Farokhmanesh
Screenwriter Massoud Bakhshi
Cinematographer Massoud Bakhshi
Editor Hayedeh Safiyari
Sound Massoud Bakhshi
Music Mahya
Production Companies Amour Fou Vienna, Sampek Productions, Little Dreams
International Sales Company Pyramide International