Displaced in Time - میان مرزهای تصویر

Displaced in Time tells the story of an Iranian family scattered across years and borders, where home becomes a shadow—ever present, yet always out of reach.
At the heart of the film is the voice of the filmmaker’s mother, whose singing—outlawed in Iran—becomes a powerful act of defiance. Her voice echoes with the weight of exile and the force of resistance.
It reflects on how displacement shapes not only where we live but how we inhabit time itself—where we can only truly meet within the fragile borders of an image.

  • Pariya Bakhshi
    Director
  • Pariya Bakhshi
    Camera
  • Nils Ramme
    Sound and Edit Consultant
  • Yuki Nakayama
    Sound Design
  • Arezou Bahar
    Key Cast
  • Ali Bakhshi
    Key Cast
  • Pouya Bakhshi
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    Persian
  • Shooting Format:
    Analog, 16 mm, high 8, Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1,66
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Director Biography - Pariya Bakhshi

PARIYA BAKHSHI, (they/she) born 1997 in Hiroshima, an Iranian filmmaker and artist, lives in Germany and studies film at Academy of Media Arts Cologne. They grew up in Iran and studied Design in Tehran University of Fine Arts. For them the act of making art and film becomes political, among others, through breaking the conventions and borders of the mediums and one of their main topics is the notion of freedom and exile, as they explore in an autobiographical essay - film Displaced in Time. Their focus in fiction is to translate the unspoken from our reality into a surreal film world, through the expression of the body, beyond language. Hence they work primarily with dancers, such as in L , VELODROME , ANAMORPHOSIS and KATZENBELLEN (CATSBARK).

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Director Statement

This film began as a way to untangle my family’s fractured story—a story stretched across decades and continents, where “home” is both a longing and a wound. It is our diasporic journey, but also the story of anyone who has stood on unfamiliar soil, gazing back at something they can no longer touch.
We drift through fragments: Hi8 footage of childhood in Japan, Nowruz rituals shared across screens, dreams of rooms that no longer exist.
My mother’s singing is a thread that ties past to present, the seen to the unseen. In her voice, I find a compass grounding me in this liminal space, I hear resilience— It is a hymn we carry within us, a defiance against forgetting.
"Displaced in Time" is not only about exile; it is about how displacement reshapes time itself, making it fragile. It is about how home becomes something we carry, flickering and impermanent. In this liminal space, we find each other—not in a place, but in the memories we carry forward.