| Director: | Négar Motevalymeidanshah |
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| Production: | Ten2Ten Films (Gwenaëlle Clauwaert) |
| Running Time: | 7’ |
| Language: | No dialogue |
| Country: | France |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Screenplay: | Négar Motevalymeidanshah |
| Music: | Kian Portorab, Laurent Vang |
| Sound: | Laurent Vang, Blanktone Studios |
| Art director: | Négar Motevalymeidanshah |
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| Lead developers: | Amaury Campion, Michaël Bolufer |
Golnaz is a young Iranian immigrant trying to adjust to her new life in Germany. One evening, returning from her job (as an assistant at a migrant reception centre in the Berlin suburbs), she is starving, and her refrigerator is empty. She decides to go to the nearest supermarket. The supermarket has just received a new product: saffron. Even though it is very expensive for her, she cannot resist: she buys a packet of saffron. Emotions overwhelm her. She feels the need to cook a home-cooked meal to help her overcome her homesickness. She prepares rice and adds saffron, a comfort food from her past. But she never expected that this moment would plunge her back into the most traumatic events of her life. Most notably, three years ago, she survived a tragic drowning that took her family while traveling illegally by boat.
Less than 5 Gr of Saffron tackles a subject we think we’ve already seen too much of: the often tragic circumstances under which many migrants flee their home countries in search of a better future. A hundred times, stories of shipwrecks and the numbers of those drowned have filled our screens, anonymous people who disappear from our memories with a snap of the fingers. The project evokes our capacity to identify profoundly with a survivor by placing her in a universally familiar-preparing a meal. In today’s extremely violent context, this empathetic experience helps to rekindle within us a common humanity, whether we have experienced such trauma firsthand or not.
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