Private Project

Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day arrives once more; banners wave, cameras roll, and people gather to celebrate the planet. Some attend out of passion, others out of habit. But amid the noise and performances, the only one truly watching, and remembering, is the Earth itself.

  • Komeil Soheili
    Director
  • Komeil Soheili
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 18, 2026
  • Country of Filming:
    South Korea
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Komeil Soheili

Komeil Soheili is an award-winning Iranian director, producer, and documentary professor at the Korean University of Media Arts. Komeil focuses on cultural and environmental issues through a sociological lens throughout his over a decade working on this field. His works has been featured by BBC, National Geographic, CNN, and Business Insider, and honored at festivals including the Seoul Eco Film Festival (Grand Award), Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (NAFF), Meihodo International Film Festival, and GZDocs (Golden Kapok Award). He has served as a jury member at festivals such as the Busan International Short Film Festival (South Korea) and Aladerri International Film Festival (USA). Author of two books—on cinema and on global ethnographic travels—he is also the founder of Yooran Film, an independent film company based in South Korea.

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Director Statement

Working at various environmental events and directed several movies on this theme; I started to wonder how the Earth might perceive a day bearing its name. Would it recognize itself in our gestures of care, or simply watch in silence?

This film comes from that question, and from the uneasy distance between celebration and reflection. It's a personal project for me as someone who works on environmental field for over a decade, and the celebrations I received for making movies on this theme.