The Irish premiere of Rouzbeh Rashidi’s latest experimental feature film, Dreaming Is Not Sleeping (2025), will take place at Light House Cinema in Dublin on Saturday, May 3rd, at 7 PM. The project was made possible through the support of the Arts Council of Ireland and expands upon the lyrical film-essay style Rashidi introduced in his 2023 work, Elpis. Over the course of two years, the filmmaker immersed himself in haunting ruins and abandoned landscapes across Germany, Poland, Denmark, and Ireland to capture the film’s evocative imagery.

The world premiere of Rouzbeh Rashidi’s latest experimental feature film, Dreaming Is Not Sleeping (2025), will take place at the historic Moviemento Kino in Berlin on Sunday, April 20, 2025, at 18:00. Over two years, the filmmaker immersed himself in haunting ruins and abandoned landscapes across Germany, Poland, Denmark, and Ireland to capture the film’s evocative imagery.

Rouzbeh Rashidi's latest feature film, "Elpis" (2023), will have its German premiere at the 7th Berlin Revolution Film Festival in Berlin on Sunday, October 22, 2023, at 9 PM.

The screening will take place at the iconic Kino Moviemento in Kreuzberg, Berlin, showcasing a pristine 4K DCP format. Following the screening, a Q&A session will be conducted with Rouzbeh Rashidi, as well as the cast and crew.

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Experimental Film Society (EFS) is a group of filmmakers dedicated to the creation of uncompromisingly personal, formally challenging filmmaking. Based in Dublin, it operates as a company for the production, archiving and promotion of films by associated artists and filmmakers. Its founder/director is filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi. It has succeeded in forging a new and radically alternative Irish cinema. Its defiantly independent vision, both deeply informed by film history and utterly modern, has animated over five hundred shorts and features over its eighteen-year existence.