Soheila is a mother who could lose the custody of her child. While stopping at a gas station, the woman loses sight of the child. What happens forces her to make a tough decision.
Soheila is a mother who could lose the custody of her child. While stopping at a gas station, the woman loses sight of the child. What happens forces her to make a tough decision.
DECISION
(Tasmim)
Iran 2023 / 15′
a film by
Negar Ebnali
with
Mina Sadati
Hosein Shahbazi
Mohammad Reza Ghanea
| Screenplay | Negar Ebnali |
| Director of Photography | Mohsen Hoseini |
| Production Design | Mohammad Asgari |
| Costumes | Samita Bekloo |
| Editor | Ehsan Vaseghi |
| Composer | Ava Rasti |
| Sound | Iraj Shahrzadi Mehrad Abolghasemi |
| Producer | Ali Abdoli |
| Executive Producer | Ali Asgari |
| Distribution | Esen Studios |
Negar Ebnali
Negar Ebnali was born in 2001 in Isfahan, Iran. She studied Cinema at Sooreh Art school and then she completed her studies at Sooreh University in Tehran. She worked as director, scriptwriter and editor during her studies.
Director statement
The equality of human rights in the region where I live has always made me think. This matter became tangible to me when my sister was about to get married and in order to get the simplest rights of her life, she had to sign a contract between herself and her husband, which her husband did not have to do this. After that, a story was formed in my mind that a woman has to bear many problems for her simplest rights, which is guardianship and custody of her child, during separation from her life partner and even experiences serious mental and emotional abuse in this way. That’s why I wrote Soheila’s story and imaged her so that we can be with the conditions of a woman during separation in this geography for just a few minutes.
Gallery of the short film
