Mere Dil Mere Musaafir (My Heart, My Traveler) is a visual expression of the unknown through the eyes of different cultures and languages.
We shot Mere Dil Mere Musaafir in the middle of quarantine in NYC with a crew as big as 3 people: the director, the cinematographer, and the performer. The empty diaspora city, the quarantine, the multi-nationality quality, and the process of shooting on film gave us the core for this project: the unknown.
Trusting the images and the words over their literal meaning is what Mere Dil Mere Mysaafir is all about and bringing unknown and uncertainty into filmmaking is part of the whole crews’ coping and healing process.
| Director | Julia Zanin de Paula |
| Producer | Arsalan Danish, Andrew Mezzai |
| Director of Photography | Donna del Castillo |
| Music | Alyssa Jackson |
| Sound Design | Alyssa Jackson |
| Edit | Guilherme Peres |
A mountain slope, an orchard, a house. Idyllic pictures in southern Serbia. Three generations under the roof of the h
A simple event in a bank will set out a young Serbian man on a journey through the immigrant communities in Berlin, w
After twenty years, the man returns to his family home. There, he establishes a relationship with the figure of magic
80-year-old retiree Arthur lives in a modest home in Vienna. For quite some time he has lovingly been caring for his
A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally confronting her with the imp
“It’s good everywhere but at home it’s better”.
Lonely people wander the empty Saint-Petersburg trying
