Ostokhan

Maryam Zarei

Iran / 2020 / Fiction / 24’0”I2005808

Ostokhan
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A young woman begins to know herself and her physical pain through her dead mother. A mother who had rejected her when alive, because she considered the little girl the result of the same bodily pain. The faith of the main character in her father breaks down, as she learns his ignorance of her mother's physical and mental depression resulted in the pregnancy that led to her birth.

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