Faced with a setback on one of her own films, Mitra Farahani works as a sort-of cinematic matchmaker, orchestrating a correspondence between beloved Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan and the legendary Jean-Luc Godard.
Through persistence, talent, and luck, Farahani brings the initially reluctant filmmakers together through emails, photos, videos and letters. The two will never meet in person, but the correspondence between the pair of luminaries is not only as intellectually stimulating as one would imagine, but it provides a fascinating look at the often warm, often banal day-to-day existence of each filmmaker. At times laugh-out-loud funny, morose, witty and baffling, See You Friday, Robinson is a superb look at two of cinema’s most powerful personalities. “Like a drink with an old friend who never stopped thinking onscreen.” –Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times
Director Biography
Born in Tehran in 1975, Mitra Farahani is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker who has a degree in graphic art from Islamic Azad University in Tehran and studied at École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She is the director of Tabous - Zohre & Manouchehr (2004), Fifi Howls from Happiness (2013), and See You Later, Robinson (2022).
This film is part of Young French Cinema, a program of Unifrance and Villa Albertine.
