Overview

• Mohammad Rasoulof premiered his theater piece Destination: Origin at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele as part of the Performing Exiles festival.
• The production features exiled Iranian actresses Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi and Mahsa Rostami alongside German actor Eli Riccardi.
• The cast has been unable to contact relatives in Iran after a network shutdown caused by the regional conflict.
• Staging elements such as suspended ropes and intimate dialogues evoke the physical and psychological trauma of flight and displacement.
• The refrain “Die Augen haben Angst, aber die Füße tragen mich weiter” embodies the work’s interplay of fear and perseverance.