2024 New Orleans Film Festival

Doc Shorts: Call & Response

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It's not easy to film a cultural movement, but these four documentary shorts do just that in profiling the stories of individuals whose daily lives take on new meaning as the personal intersects with the political. 

Elahe returns to her hometown in Mashhad, Iran, to assist her family's move to a new house after 40 years. Influenced by the Woman Life Freedom movement, she has decided to stop wearing the hijab on all occasions, which is challenging for her deeply religious family's norms.

  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    27 minutes
  • Language
    Persian
  • Country
    UK, Iran
  • Premiere
    North American
  • Director
    Elahe Esmaili
  • Screenwriter
    Elahe Esmaili
  • Producer
    Hossein Behboudi Rad
  • Cinematographer
    Mehdi Azadi
  • Editor
    Delaram Shemirani