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2011 Sundance Bonus Predictions: Maryam Keshavarz’s Circumstance

I could have sworn that Maryam Keshavarz’s Circumstance had had a world preem at Locarno, but no – it’ll be ready for the 2011 film festival season. Look for the Sundance Institute’s 2007 Screenwriters Lab participant to showcase her feature debut in Park City – specifically in the World Dramatic Comp. Then it could easily go to Rotterdam, where it received the Hubert Bals Fund or Berlin where the film/filmmaker was part of the Talent Campus.

Eric Lavallée

Published on November 18, 2010

#53. Circumstance – Maryam Keshavarz

I could have sworn that Maryam Keshavarz’s Circumstance had had a world preem at Locarno, but no – it’ll be ready for the 2011 film festival season. Look for the Sundance Institute’s 2007 Screenwriters Lab participant to showcase her feature debut in Park City – specifically in the World Dramatic Comp. Then it could easily go to Rotterdam, where it received the Hubert Bals Fund or Berlin where the film/filmmaker was part of the Talent Campus.

This tells the story of how a single event – a soldier’s death at the Iran/Iraq border – irrevocably connects the lives of four people across continents. Through the telling of a love triangle between three teenagers, Circumstance explores the multifaceted and destructive repression that continues to confront Iran’s new generation.

* Producers: Karin Chien (The Motel), Antonin Dedet and Melissa M. Lee
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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).