Not Without My Zari

"not without my Zari" is a short film made by collaboration of two Iranian artists in diaspora, Shagha Ariannia, a painter and video artist, and Leila Farjami, a poet and writer. This film is an uncomplicated narrative of many clouded yearnings towards one's birthplace and the tumults and challenges of bearing vague bundles of one's cultural heritage as an immigrant. "not without my Zari" is a brief tale of an unreciprocated longing for the "other" regardless of how illusory or unattainable.