Partner: Locarno Film Festival | Locarno Residency
Director:
Hoda Taheri
Filmmaker's profile
Confused between German bureaucracy and questions about sexuality, Hoda, an Iranian asylum seeker in Berlin finds herself emotionally and sexually hooked on Magdalena, who promised to grant her stay permission by marrying her.
Duration: 24min.
Country: Germany
Language: English, Persian, German
Year: 2022
Genre: Documentary, Experimental, Fiction (Drama)
Topic: Adult Relationship, Body, Bureaucracy, Discrimination, Emigration, Eroticism, Exile, Family, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Homeland, Immigration, LGBTQ, Motherhood, Racism, Sexuality
Director: Hoda Taheri
Production company: AVA Film
Writer: Hoda Taheri, Magdalena Jacob
Cinematographer: Jonathan Steil
Editor: Jonathan Steil
Actors: Hoda Taheri, Magdalena Jacob, Jahandokht Saffarian, Gabriele Barth
Distributor Company: Le Hangar
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Minimalen Short Film Festival
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
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