Less Than 5Gr of Saffron

🏆 Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice Immersive 2025, step into an intimate VR story about memory, exile, and the invisible aftermath of survival.

Less Than 5gr of Saffron follows Golnaz, a young Iranian woman rebuilding her life in Germany after a traumatic migration journey. One evening, exhausted and hungry, she comes across saffron in a supermarket — a rare and precious spice that immediately brings back memories of home.

As she prepares a simple meal, the scent and color of saffron begin to transform the space around her. The act of cooking becomes a passage between present and past, bringing Golnaz back to the journey she survived three years earlier: a dangerous boat crossing in which she lost her family.

🧳 EXPERIENCE MEMORY THROUGH SENSATION

Less Than 5gr of Saffron uses virtual reality to place you inside Golnaz’s emotional space. Through gesture, sound, atmosphere, and sensory memory, the experience invites you to feel how trauma can resurface in the quietest moments of everyday life.

🧳 A DIALOGUE-FREE IMMERSIVE STORY

Without dialogue, Less Than 5gr of Saffron crosses language barriers and offers a deeply human reflection on loss, belonging, and resilience.