Film Information
Year: 2024
Duration: 78
Language: VOSE
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis
Melina is a young Iranian girl with divorced parents, living with her grandparents. Celebrating her 9th birthday, Melina legally comes of age in Iranian society, allowing her to take her custody case to court to get the legal permission to live with her mother. Melina is growing up much too fast having to deal with these adult issues. As she starts to realize her mother doesn’t want to take her in, Melina decides not to bring her case to court, knowing it won’t solve her problems. Instead, she holds her own trail of her mother in an intimate but hard confrontation.
Director
Atiye Zare Arandi is an Iranian filmmaker graduated in film directing and dramatic literature. Following her studies, she has gained experience and recognition as writer/director for national Iranian fiction as well as documentary work. Her work has been represented several times at the International Cinema Verité Festival (Tehran). She made her feature-length debut in 2024 with Grand Me, a coming-of-age documentary about her nine-year-old niece Melina. It won the Alter Award at the 2024 Alternativa Film Festival in Yogyakarta and received major accolades at other film festivals like the CPH:DOX.
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