And How Miserable is the Home of Evil

A dictator says his last words in front of his followers before spending the last seconds of his life sitting on a chair as people break into his house to kill him.
The website of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is crammed with filmed sermons and speeches. Appropriating these official archives, Saleh Kashefi – exiled in France – has created a political fiction that is both hard-hitting and ambiguous. We bear direct witness to the dictator’s last moments before his downfall, as whispers fill the streets.

Categories: Drama