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Mother Prays All Day Long

Partner: Locarno – Pardi di domani   |   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.

Details

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

Cast & Crew

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

Festivals & Awards

2022

Locarno Film Festival Locarno Film Festival Special Mention

Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn (PÖFF)

Minimalen Short Film Festival

2023

Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen

Filmfest Dresden Filmfest Dresden golden horseman

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