Noghteh-e-Goriz (The Vanishing Point). 2025. Directed by Bani Khoshnoudi

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Noghteh-e-Goriz (The Vanishing Point). 2025. Iran/USA/France. Directed by Bani Khoshnoudi. Courtesy the filmmaker

Noghteh-e-Goriz (The Vanishing Point). 2025. Iran/USA/France. Directed by Bani Khoshnoudi. US premiere. DCP. In Farsi, English; English subtitles. 103 min.

A documentary essay of astonishing breadth and urgency—and the winner of the Visions du Réel Burning Lights Competition Jury Prize—The Vanishing Point explores memory, loss, and resistance reverberating across personal and collective histories. Exiled from Iran after her film on the 2009 Green Movement was banned, filmmaker and artist Bani Khoshnoudi revisits imagery from family archives and years of diaristic filming in her home country. Breaking a decades-long silence, Khoshnoudi reconstructs the story of her disappeared cousin, who was executed at age 27 during the 1988 purges in Iran’s political prisons. Confronting the generational weight of silence on a population living under state violence, the film is equally rooted in the present day, swelling with the force of Iran’s ongoing popular protest movements.

Past events

Sat, Mar 7, 2:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Fri, Mar 6, 7:00 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with Bani Khoshnoudi

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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