Country: Iran
Year: 2026
Duration: 15'
Broadcasting forced-confession videos for political purposes is a method the Islamic Republic has used since it came to power. Hanie, a woman in her thirties, is a crew member on a video team that shoots these videos, and another woman named Sonia is someone whose confession video is about to be recorded. The encounter between the two causes Hanie to gradually empathize with Sonia and leads her into a moral dilemma.
Biography
film director
Shadi Karamroudi
(Iran, 1990) is an Iranian actress, director, and screenwriter. She studied film and acting at the Karnameh Film School in Tehran and later earned a degree in literature from Soore University, also in Tehran. Her short film All the Time (2020) was screened at Busan, followed by It Turns Blue (2023), which won Best Narrative Short Film at South by Southwest and went on to receive awards at Busan, Granada, and Izmir, Turkey. In 2023, she wrote the screenplay for her first feature film, I Can Hear You Whispering, which was further developed at Berlinale Talents and Script Station and awarded the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ava at the age of twelve (cm, 2013), Mon Amour (cm, 2014), Faraz (cm, 2015), Not Yet (cm, 2016), All the Time (cm, 2020), It Turns Blue (cm, 2023), It Means Hope (cm, 2026).
Declaration
film director
“Despite censorship and threats silencing this topic for years, the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement taught me that I should put away my fears and fight back against viciousness with my own weapon, which is my camera.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Shadi Karamroudi. SCREENPLAY: Shadi Karamroudi, Arian Vazirdaftari. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Soroush Alizadeh. EDITING: Pooyan Sholevar. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Sara Azampanah. MUSIC: Sohrab Karamroudi. SOUND: Zohreh Aliakbari, Hadi Manavipour. CAST: Shadi Karamroudi, Sonia Sanjari, Esmail Kamali Dehghan, Alireza Yalveh, Mohammad Esmaeilzadeh. PRODUCTION: Shadi Karamroudi, Pooyan Sholevar. CONTACT: Shadi Karamroudi shadi.karamroudi@gmail.com
