A Sense of Place (2023)

In 1972, George Seddon wrote "Sense of Place", a landmark environmental study of the Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia. Wim Wenders discovered the book during one of his journeys to Australia in the 1970s. Having made himself 'places' main characters already in his first cinematic works, he found similarities to his own artistic approach and contextualized the expression to the field of cinema, as described in his book "A Sense of Place" (2005). In 2020, Afsun Moshiry picked up on the theme and collaborated with the Wim Wenders Foundation to create a multi-layered project of the same title. In this realm, Iranian filmmakers embarked on exploring their own cinematic definitions of "a Sense of Place", resulting in eclectic and diverse films.