Born in Iran

Cartoonist Majid Bita delves back into the Iran of his childhood. That of 1990s, in the aftermath of the war against Iraq. He accumulates memories which outline the contours of his identity: his grandmother's sweet cakes that he stole, the comforting warmth of embroidered blankets, the smell of the opium that men smoke or the intermittent crackling of the radio... But The Specters of War and the Prohibitions of Ayatollah Khomeini's Regime hover over the little boy's daily life and imagination. His anxieties are materialize in wisps of black smoke, haunted by Persian djinns in hallucinated look. Majid Bita paints the portrait of a fragmented identity, between cultural heritage, family intimacy and socio-political context.