A letter to home

docu-fiction // 15 min // dir. Sina Aghazadeh // DFFB // 2026

cinematography Dorothea Pilz // music Juan Carlos Bautista & Sina Aghazadeh

Berlin’s winter becomes a witness to a letter never delivered. On a cold morning, a cyclist finds a letter left behind, written by an Iranian forced into exile and addressed to his family far away. As she reads, another face of the city reveals itself, confronting her with the pain beneath the surface. Moving between documentary observation and fictional scenes, the film becomes an attempt to confront the meaning of home once it has been left behind.

World premiere in the Short Film Competition at the 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival. 9–18 October 2026.

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Still from A Letter to Home (2026), cinematography by Dorothea Pilz: a woman in a yellow coat and scarf in a wintry Berlin park
Still from A Letter to Home (2026), cinematography by Dorothea Pilz: a lone figure walking beneath street lamps in a winter park at night
Still from A Letter to Home (2026), cinematography by Dorothea Pilz: a figure in a red coat on a small bridge in a misty winter park at dusk