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AS IF MOTHER CRIED THAT NIGHT (ENGAR MADARAM GERISTE BUD AAN SHAB)
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Completed - FARSI, GERMAN - Drama

Log Line

An Iranian couple clings to motherhood as a possible tool to stay in Germany, unravelling a web of uncertainty and sacrifice in their desperate quest for asylum.




Year of production : 2023

Director(s) : Hoda TAHERI
 Writer(s) : Magdalena JACOB, Boris HADZIJA, Hoda TAHERI
 Cast : Hadi KHANJANPOUR , Hoda TAHERI, Benjamin KÜHNI , Kirsten BURGER , Björn OLE-BLUNCK

Producer(s) : Julia rose GOSTYNSKI

Synopsis

Sirvan and Hoda, an Iranian couple whose asylum application was rejected in Germany, live in a refugee camp in Berlin. In order to obtain a residence permit, they decide that Hoda should become pregnant by a German man, in order to give both of them the right to stay in Germany. As we pursue this unconventional path of getting a permission to stay, we lose ourselves in the labyrinth of German bureaucracy and remain there with no solution and with the bitter feeling that current laws and structures are deeply questionable.

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Country(ies) : GERMANY

Festivals and Awards

Locarno 2023 (Pardi di domani)
winterthur 2023 (competition)
Interfilm Berlin 2023 (competition)


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