“I am God”, said Mansour Hallaj and refused to answer the questions his statement provoked. Instead, he calmly awaited his execution. Eleven hundred years later, modern playwright Nader follows in Hallaj’s footsteps. A tragic history repeats itself, once again accompanied by a curious crowd and an accepting silence.
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Palma
When Jeanne’s good intentions for the mother-daughter getaway fall short, getting a perfect holiday snapshot becomes a serious matter. -
Veronica
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The Trees
Warm, blackly comical film in which a son pays more attention to the sick olive trees than the rituals surrounding his father’s death.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Iran
- Year
- 2021
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2021
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
