DREI VERSUCHE ZU MEINEM VATER

8 minutes and three attempts to describe one’s father - Ali Zojaji's short documentary is a sincere and touching little film poem dedicated to a father he would like to know better. Ali approaches cautiously, step by step. In his first attempt, we hear what other people have told Ali about his father, who emigrated from Iranto Germany, leaving everything behind to offer his son a better future. "A brother-in-law of my father's who lives in Teheran told me how my father felt when he had to ask me, a twelve-year-old boy, to write letters for him." The second attempt is a prose poem by Ali: "My father to whom I can't look up because he's three centimetres shorter than me, my father who goes to the cinema with me so we can sit next to each other, my father who is as proud of my life as if it were his own…" In the third attempt, we finally get to hear from the father. He is worried because his business with second-hand cars is not going well. But when he turns towards his son filming him, he smiles at him and says into the camera: "Everything is going to be ok. It won’t stay like this." Three attempts and a beautiful declaration of love to a father.