Project Description
Short Fiction/ 13 Minutes/ Iran/ 2025
A desperate actress, facing her husband’s impending execution, manipulates a victim’s grieving mother by claiming pregnancy to gain sympathy, but her deception unravels when the mother demands custody of her unborn child.
Original Title: Gereh
Genre: Drama
Language: Persian
Directed by: Mohammadreza (Oshan) Mahmoodi
Producer: Shahab Mahmoodi
Screenplay: Arash Chavoshi
Cinematography: Adib Sobhani
Editing: Oshan Mahmoodi, Masoud Aghighi
Sound Design: Mohammad Asghari
Composer: Mohammad Asghari
Costume Design: Shahab Mahmoodi
Set Design: Shahab Mahmoodi
Cast: Shirin Jaroghi, Mehrnaz Hosseyini
Synopsis
Atefeh is a young actress whose husband has been sentenced to death for murder. She plays the role of a pregnant woman in her theater performance and decides to portray herself as an instant pregnant woman in front of the victim’s guardian, an elderly mother, to elicit the victim’s family’s sympathy. In the end, however, the victim’s mother agrees to give her consent on the condition that Atefeh hands over her child to her after giving birth. This condition exposes all of Atefeh’s plans.
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