‘Radiograph of a Family,’ ‘Gorbachev. Heaven’ Win Top Awards at IDFA
Damon Wise Iranian director Firouzeh Khosrovani has won the IDFA award for Best Feature-Length Documentary with “Radiograph of a Family,” a film that uses an intimate study of her parents’ marriage—her father was secular, Westernized and progressive, while her mother was a devout, traditional Muslim—to explore the divisions in Iranian society both in the run-up and aftermath of the Iranian Revolution in 1979.The jury, which comprised Marie-Pierre Macia, Ed Lachman, Alice Diop, Abdelkader Benali, and Finn Halligan, praised Khosrovani for her “masterful storytelling,” adding, “The fractured body of family life is told through images, photos, and enactments in such a way that the viewer, too, feels the loss.” Contacted by Zoom, the director