ADRIAN’S ABSENCE
Documentary
Director: Reza Serkanian
Cast: Alexandra Lesieur
Image: Reza Serkanian
Edit: Laurent Carton
Location: France (Normandy Region)
Distribution: Overlap Films
Available on DCP – Video – DVD
Synopsis:
Adrian is in a coma, after having an accident with his motorbike. Doctors say that he may die at any moment, or come back to the normal life. The whole family and Adrian’s friends have been filmed with a small digital camera, in their rural life. They had to prepare pictures, to give him reminders, in case he had a lose of memory when he woke up.
Links: Allociné – UniFrance – IMDB
Year: 2004
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 26 min
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Country of Production: France
Watch the trailer (coming soon)
Festivals
– Tehran Short Film Festival – Iran 2004
– Festival « Signe de Nuit » – Paris, France 2006
Director
REZA SERKANIAN
Biography
Reza Serkanian is an Iranian-born filmmaker active for over three decades in fiction and documentary. He began making short films at seventeen in Iran and gained early international recognition, with two selections at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. After studying cinema in Tehran, he continued his artistic development at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He has been based in France since 1998 and works across Europe, Africa, and Iran, focusing on social realities and human relationships. He also works as an editor and cinematographer. His first feature film, Ephemeral Wedding, received the Sopadin & France Culture Screenplay Award and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 before its release in France. After Playmakers, a documentary co-produced with France 3 for television, his new feature film Intruders will be released theatrically in France in 2026.
Filmography
INTRUDERS
2026 – Fiction – 80 min – Overlap Films – France
PLAYMAKERS
2020 – Documentary – 68 min – Overlap Films – France
CHILDREN TREADING THE BOARDS
2019 – Documentary – 52 min – Overlap Films – France
THE ROCK OF NARAYAMA
2018 – Fiction – 15 min – Overlap Films – France / Iran
EPHEMERAL WEDDINGS
2011 – Fiction – 83 min – Overlap Films – France
THOSE WHO EAT WOOD
2008 – Documentary – 50 min – Overlap Films – France / Gabon
ADRIEN’S ABSENCE
2004 – Documentary – 26 mn – Overlap Films – France
REUNION
2003 – Fiction – 25 min – 35mm – Overlap Films – France / Iran
IN PASSING
2002 – Fiction – 19 min – 16mm – Polygone Films – France
RETURN
2000 – Fiction – 30 min – 16mm – Valor Films – The Netherlands
PARASTOU
1995 – Fiction – 31 min – 35mm – Iran
BIRD IN THE WIND
1993 – Fiction – 42 mn – 16mm – Iran