19 (Nouzdah)

Manijeh Hekmat / Iran

Screening

FILMIN

2nd NOV - 3rd DEC

Film Information

Year: 2022

Duration: 77'

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

After getting infected with COVID-19, a 57-year-old Iranian painter, single woman, Mitra, goes into a coma. In this trance, she starts a journey to different pieces of her memories through her unconscious mind. Mitra’s spirit comes back home to pack an imaginary luggage full of bittersweet memories. Moments before her last travel, just like Lot’s wife, she looks back at her, her friends, and her generation’s lives regarding what they have done, what they have built and what they have ruined.

Director

Manijeh Hekmat is an Iranian film director. She has worked since 1980 as an assistant director and production designer in over 25 films. She directed her first feature film Women’s Prison (Zendān-e Zanān) in 2002. This film has been shown at over 80 international film festivals and has received seven prizes. Hekmat has produced five noted films which include the award-winning feature films The Girl in the Sneakers and A Bunch of Grass, the latter a German-produced film made in the Iranian Kurdistan. In her The Old Road (2008), Hekmat addressed the social problem of violence against women.