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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