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The Sealed Soil (Khake sar beh mohr), dir. Marva Nabili, Iran 1977, Persian with English subtitles, 90 min.
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As her community prepares to relocate to accommodate a government-mandated construction project, a young woman rebels against the restrictions imposed on her when she reaches marrying age by rejecting all suitors. Bressonian in its formal rigour and sense of detachment, the earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman is a hypnotic and quietly radical portrait of resistance, and a passionate rejection of patriarchy.
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08:30 pm
Sat, 12 Oct 2024
Cinema 1
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