Private Project

The Tree

An Iranian documentary filmmaker in Cuba decides to dedicate a film to her father. Through the image of a tree grown on a 5th floor of a building in ruins, the film refers to uprooting.
At the same time, she shares with the audience the doubts which are the essential part of any process of a quest.

  • Roya Eshraghi
    Director
  • Roya Eshraghi
    Writer
  • Ze Peixoto
    Producer
  • Roya Eshraghi
    Producer
  • Freidell Urbina
    Cinematography
  • Victor Quintanilha
    Sound
  • Ahmed O. Abdellahi
    Edition
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    DERAKHT
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 27 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Cuba
  • Country of Filming:
    Cuba
  • Language:
    Persian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Official Selection, Punto de Vista Film Festival
    Pamplona, Spain
    February 12, 2016
    European Premier
    Nominated Best Short Film
  • Best Short Film Fidba Film Festival
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    August 2, 2016
    South American Premier
    Best Short Film
  • Nominated Best Short Documentary in New Filmmakers L.A.
    Los Angeles
    United States
    June 25, 2016
    North American Premier
    Nominated Best Short Documentary 2016
  • Concorto Film Festival
    Piacenza
    Italy
    August 22, 2016
    Italian Premier
  • Equinoxio Film Festival
    Bogota
    Colombia
    September 8, 2016
    South American Premier
  • Award Best Short Costa Rica Film Festival
  • Award Best short Film MiradasDoc, Spain
Distribution Information
  • EICTV
    Country: Cuba
Director Biography - Roya Eshraghi

Roya Eshraghi was born in 1985 in Iran. By the age 15, she left her homeland.
Her own experiences in life with her passion for Persian poetry have been a source of her inspiration, reverberating into her cinematography, as it happens in “The Tree”. She studied Anthropology in Costa Rica, then Cinema in EICTV/Cuba. Memory, migration, a quest regarding identity are some of the main topics of her exploration, both artistic as well as social.

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