New Matter Films

19/07/2024

💘💘💘 BOOMERANG goes Venice 💘💘💘

We are extremely honored that our German-Iranian co-production BOOMERANG written and directed by Shahab Fotouhi will celebrate its world premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival’s Giornate Degli Autori 🥹
Thank you for this warm invite Gaia Furrer and Renata Santoro and all selection committee 🫶

And the biggest thank you and our highest respect for all the courageous work that went into the film by all its crew and cast, we feel honored to have worked on this together with you:

BOOMERANG

Written and directed by Shahab Fotouhi

A New Matter Films production in co-production with Zohal Films and Rainy Pictures

Starring Arash Naimian, Leili Rashidi, Yas Farkhondeh, Ali Hanafian, Shaghayegh Djodat

Filmed by Faraz Fesharaki

Edited by Pouya Parsamagham Koberidze

Music by Panagiotis Mina

Script Consultant Siavash Yazdanmehr

Set Design Siavash Yazdanmehr

Costume Design Shokoufeh Rahmati

Gaffer Hamed Otadi

Sounddesign Tobias Adam

Mix by Kai Tebbel

Colorist Isabelle Julien

Poster Design Maziyar Pahlevan

Very special thanks to Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Fariba Fotouhi and Naghmeh Abbasi for their enduring support throughout the years of making the film.

❤️‍🔥 Thank you for your early trust into the project !! ❤️‍🔥

Special thanks to our world sales Cercamon with their strong and early commitment we love you 🫶

14/04/2024

Next Wednesday in Berlin again! We hope to see you!!

دیشب چه خوابی دیدی پاراجانف؟

08/04/2024

Both upcoming Wednesdays WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV? by Faraz Fesharaki will be screened again in Berlin at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA programmed by Afsun Moshiry 🫶
We hope to see many of you there !

05/04/2024

Sonntag 23.45 it’s time for lineares Fernsehen 🤓 ALLE REDEN ÜBERS WETTER von .ost in der yes yes hoch die Quoten hoch

11/03/2024

🏙️ So pleased about this invitation! WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV? will celebrate its international Premiere at First Look 2024 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York next week!! 😍

Saturday, Mar 16, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.
Location: Bartos Screening Room

Thanks to Edo Choi for inviting us !!

24/02/2024

Cineuropa on WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV?

“With all of its tenderness and patience legible from the silences allowed to haunt the pixelated video calls, this debut will surely seep into your daily life and conversations; when you call your parents, you’ll surely think of Hasan and Mitra. Such rawness must not be taken lightly, but rather treated with respect and the utmost attention, so that we learn to appreciate even those few seconds when the internet connection breaks down as truly shared, be they wordy or wordless.”

22/02/2024 - BERLINALE 2024: Faraz Fesharaki’s directorial debut builds a bridge between Iran and Germany out of we**am recordings and shared memories

24/02/2024

Listen to Faraz Fesharaki talking to Knut Elstermann at radioeins about WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV? 😍

Über zehn Jahre hat Faraz Fesharaki den Austausch mit seiner Familie dokumentiert, den digitalen Dialog zwischen einem, der auszog, in Deutschland Film zu studieren, und jenen, die in der iranischen Millionenstadt geblieben sind. Vater Hasan und Mutter Mitra diskutieren über die traditionelle Roll...

20/02/2024

❤️🥹🥹 Thank you Berlinale Forum / Forum Expanded and Barbara Wurm for giving us this precious present of celebrating the world premiere of WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV? by Faraz Fesharaki with so many friends and crew members in the beautiful setting of Haus der Kulturen der Welt !!

Special thanks again to the people who contributed so much over the years to the genesis of the film especially Leonie Minor, Moritz Friese, Shahab Fotouhi, Jan Bachmann, Alexandre Koberidze, Julian Radlmaier, Marius Land and special thanks to Bodo Knappheide, head of study’s at Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) who was crucial that we could make the film the way we wanted to.

AND Thank you to everyone who made last night possible, special shout out to new matters assistant Jonas Erler 💖

16/02/2024

3 days to go !! On Monday we will celebrate the world premiere of WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV? at Berlinale Forum / Forum Expanded !!

Ticket sales open today at 10am for regular buyers and tomorrow at 7.30am for people with accreditation !

We hope to see you at one of our screenings!

Monday, 19.02.24 3.30pm @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt - WORLD PREMIERE

Tuesday, 20.02.24 1pm @ Arsenal

Friday, 23.02.24 4pm @ Cubix

Sunday, 25.02.24 12.30pm @ silent green

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin - Offizielle Website

17/01/2024

So so happy to announce that our film WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV? by our long term collaborator Faraz Fesharaki produced together with Ewelina Rosinska and Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) will premiere at this years Berlinale Forum / Forum Expanded !! 🐻

Thank you to Barbara Wurm for your early believe in our film and that we can finally share it with the audience in one of our favorite platforms for cinema culture.

🧡 A huge thank you and virtual hug to our small, precious team especially DoPs Moritz Friese and Shahab Fotouhi and our pr otagonists Hasan, Mitra and Rahi and their years of support. 🫂

WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV?
Was hast du gestern geträumt, Parajanov?

Written, directed and edited by Faraz Fesharaki

Documentary Form, 81 min, Germany, Farsi

The we**am witnessed it all: from the strange snowfall in Isfahan to Mitra telling stories of her prison time and Hasan insisting on hearing his son’s last night dream. A decade of family togetherness, online, between Isfahan and Berlin.

With Mitra Kia, Hasan Fesharaki, Faraz Fesharaki, Rahi Sinaki

A dffb production in co production with New Matter Films, Ewelina Rosinska, Faraz Fesharaki

Produced by Luise Hauschild, Ewelina Rosinska, Mariam Shatberashvili

Director of Photography: Moritz Friese, Shahab Fotouhi and Faraz Fesharaki
Sounddesign: Sum-Sum Shen
Mix: Jan Pasemann
Dramaturgical Advisor: Andres Veiel, Markus Nechleba
Line Producer: Andreas Louis
Production Assistant: Hanna Angelus, Nóra Wittmann, Jonas Erler
Titel Design: Farhad Fozouni, Studio Teheran
Poster Illustration: Jan Bachmann
Poster Design: Marius Land
Poster Font: Sascha Bente
Subtitles: Way Film Matthew Way + Zoya Honarmand
Subtitles Support: German Films

Years of support by Leonie & Arthur Minor, Chaka Feshasraki, Alexandre Koberidze, Irine Jorjadze, Borbála Nagy, Sara Summa
& all employees of the DFFB

18/12/2023

Wow 😵‍💫 2nd most watched film on MUBI Deutschland in 2023 is TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER by Annika Pinske 🫣😍

27/11/2023

Very proud and grateful that Annika Pinske won the script development grant of NORDISCHE FILMTAGE LÜBECK that will allow her to work on her & our upcoming film ! Thank you to jury and this valuable support !!

22/11/2023

So happy ! Two new projects of ours with many wonderful people attached can take their next steps! Thank you AGAIN to MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung for the trust in us and our films !

> Project Development Funding for F***Y SPIELT written by Hannah Sioda and directed by Katinka Narjes

> Production Funding for PATTY written and directed by Luise Donschen and produced together with fuenferfilm

📣 MDM-Förderentscheidung – Reisen durch Raum und Zeit 📣

Unser Vergabeausschuss hat getagt: Die MDM fördert mit einer Rekordsumme von über 5,5 Millionen Euro 44 neue spannende Filme, Serien- und Medienprojekte.

Eine Übersicht zu den geförderten Projekten gibt es hier 👉 https://www.mdm-online.de/index.php?id=gefoerdert

20/11/2023

🤭🫢 Our shortfilm NATUREZA HUMANA by qualified for the 96th Oscars ® for next year 🤗 Congratulations to the whole crew and cast and fingers crossed!! 🧡

15/10/2023

Thank you Film Fest Gent for having us & NATUREZA HUMANA in your wonderful shortfilm program and brought us together with so many wonderful people ! 🫂🌸

13/10/2023

Tonight we will celebrate the
🇧🇪 premiere of NATUREZA HUMANA at the wonderful Film Fest Gent with director Mónica Lima and producer Luise Hauschild attending followed by more screening this autmn at

🇫🇷 45th Cinemed - Monpellier Int. Festival of Mediterranean Film
20.10. + 25.10.

🇪🇬 6th El Guan Film Festival
27.10. - 02.11.

🇹🇼 15th Kuan-Du Film Festival Taiwan
18.10. - shown together with all of Mónica’s short films!

🇵🇹 CineEco - Festival Int. de Cinema da Serra da Estrela
06.10.

and a big tour behind us the last months that make us very proud and happy! A special shout out here to the whole crew of Agência - Portuguese Short Film Agency that helped our film travel to so many precious places !! 🧡

🇹🇼 45th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

🇦🇹 20th Vienna Shorts

🇭🇷 21th Tabor Film Festival / International short film festival

🇮🇪 19th Lago Film Fest

🇦🇺 71th Melbourne International Film Festival

🇲🇰 7th Drim Short Film Festival

🇫🇮 Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy

🇨🇦 Festival de Cinémade la Ville de Québec

10/10/2023

🥰 Couldn’t be prouder 🥰 Annika Pinske receives the Young Cinema Award by DEFA Stiftung decorated with some precious words of Jenni Zylka 🙏🏻🧡 and alongside with all your long term collaborators Emma Brüggler, Johannes Flachmeyer, Ben Bernhard, Luise Hauschild, Mariam Shatberashvili & Marion Pinske 🧡🧡🧡 and many more who couldn’t join that night

16/07/2023

😍 Two wins for NATUREZA HUMANA at Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival last night 😍
BEST SHORT FILM of the national competition and the AUDIENCE AWARD ! 🦋🦋
Thank you so much to the jury and congratulations to this specially beautiful crew and cast that came together for this production! We would have loved to be with you last night 🫂🧡

11/07/2023

Ohh thank you MDR - Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk for this sweet portrait of us and our time in Cannes and thank you Claas Danielsen MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung for your words about our work !! 🫂💘

Die Produktionsfirma „New Matter Films“ bringt frischen Wind ins deutsche Kino. Gegründet haben sie zwei junge Frauen. Eine von beiden ist die Leipziger Filmproduzentin Luise Hauschild. Sie ist zu Gast im Studio.

21/06/2023

Finally 🇵🇹💕 Portuguese Premiere ahead for NATUREZA HUMANA Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival !!

09/05/2023

And WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? by Alexandre Koberidze now available in German TV 🪄

Was sehen wir, wenn wir zum Himmel schauen? | Video | Spielfilm Deutschland/Georgien 2019 +++ Lisa und Giorgi verlieben sich auf den ersten Blick, doch finden sie sich aufgrund eines Fluchs nicht wieder. Eine romantische Tragikomödie mit dokumentarischen und magischen Elementen, über die Magie des...

09/05/2023

2 happy funding news to go the next steps in development of our new films!

FFA Treatment Funding for Annika Pinske's new feature film INTO THE RIVER
&
MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung Project Development Funding for Youdid Kahveci's ANORAK

Thank you for all your trust!!

📣 Förderentscheidungen: Neue Projekte von Dominik Graf, Robert Thalheim und Thomas Stuber 📣

Unser Vergabeausschuss hat getagt: Die MDM fördert 30 neue Film- und Medienprojekte mit über 3,2 Millionen Euro!

Eine Übersicht der geförderten Projekte gibt es hier 👉 https://www.mdm-online.de/index.php?id=gefoerdert

27/04/2023

🦋🐌 NATUREZA HUMANA continues its travels to 🇲🇽 Mexico FICG Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 🙏🏻 Very honored to be screening there !!

20/04/2023

So happy about our 2 wins at achtung berlin - new berlin film award last night !! 😍😍😍💓🫂

Best Medium-Length Film - PERFORMER by Oliver Grüttner

Best Short Film - NATUREZA HUMANA by Mónica Lima

Thank you so much to the jury Fabian Stumm, Eren Aksu and & Christine Hartmann and their warm and poetic words they found for the films and for the festival for giving us the opportunity to share our films in so lively screenings!

And congratulations to all filmmakers and collaborators with whom we worked on both films especially Bianca Gleissinger, Henning Wagner, Gonçalo Branco,Uma Pedra no Sapato Faraz Fesharaki, Giulia Schelhas, Moritz Friese, Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) 💜

30/03/2023

2x New Matter Films at the upcoming achtung berlin - new berlin film award 🙏🏻

NATUREZA HUMANA by Mónica Lima will celebrate its German Premiere in the short film competition &

PERFORMER by Oliver Grüttner will have its Berlin Premiere in the medium length film competition🌟

See you in cinemas !!

NATUREZA HUMANA
Sat 15.04. 16:15 City Kino Wedding
Sun 16.04. 20.15 Babylon Mitte

PERFORMER
Fr 14.04. 20:30 acud Kino
Mo 17.04. 20:45 fsk Kino

26/03/2023

😍😍 NATUREZA HUMANA just won the Grand Prix at Festival Regard ❤️ 🇨🇦 Thank you to the jury!! And congratulations to director and writer Mónica Lima, writer Gonçalo Branco, DoP Faraz Fesharaki, the main cast Joao Vicente and Crista Alfaiate and the entire crew and cast who contributed to the film ! 🤎

24/03/2023

Today! 😍😍 MUBI Germany online release of ALLE REDEN ÜNERS WETTER / TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER by Annika Pinske 🌠

28/02/2023

🥰🥰 NATUREZA HUMANA by Mónica Lima is selected for the 52nd edition New Directors/New Films at Film at Lincoln Center and MoMA The Museum of Modern Art and we are very honored to be back in New York in April! Thank you to the programming team for this invitation !! 💘

Uma Pedra no Sapato Agência - Portuguese Short Film Agency
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)

20/02/2023

😍😍💜 2 wins at the German Film Critic awards yesterday!!

Best Film - Alexandre Koberidze for WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?

Best Script - Annika Pinske for TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER

Best Birthday presents for our 3 year company anniversary 🖤 huge congrats to Alexandre and Annika and everyone who was part of the process !

📸 by Sabine Gudath, Ben Bernhard

29/01/2023

Wooaww NATUREZA HUMANA wins the Ammodo Short Tiger Award in Rotterdam!! 🐯🦋 We couldn’t be happier !! Thank you to the festival and the jury for giving this film such a sweet start into its life ! And thank you and congratulations to all crew and cast members who made this possible and contributed with their creativity & kindness & heart ! 🖤🫂

NATUREZA HUMANA
by Mónica Lima

Starring João Vicente, Crista Alfaiate , Marco Paiva , Mafalda Jara and Lucas & Maria

produced by
in coproduction with and

written by Gonçalo Branco and Mónica Lima

photographed by Faraz Fesharaki

International Sales and Distribution:

1.AD: Duarte Coimbra & Ana Mariz
Script Continuity: Ricardo Branco

Producer: Filipa Reis, Luise Hauschild
Co Producer: Mariam Shatberashvili
Line Producer: Joana Vaz da Silva
Production Manager: Frederico Mesquita
Ass. Production Manager: Gonçalo Pina

Art Direction: Cláudia Lopes Costa
Ass. Art Director: Catarina Campos de Sousa
Wardrobe: Fabiana Aricò

Gaffer: Moritz Friese
Electricians: Pedro Asa Branco, Francisco Sousa, Eduardo Carvalho

1.AC: Juliane Rupar Selma Lopes & Thomas Ammann
2. AC: Esra Tanriverdi .tanrvrdi

Sound: Paulo Lima
Editing: Francisco Moreira
Grading: Marco Amaral .pt
Music: Gonçalo Sousa .f.sousa