case: social, feminist
Genre: Drama, surreal
Subject: social, feminist
Length:12 minutes
Production year:2021 spring
Director's note: love is the feeling that a mother feels when she hugs her helpless and small child.
"Redemption" is an adaption of the book " letter to a child never born" by Oriana Fallaci.
Cast: Behnoush Sadeghi, Mehri Al Agha, Nastaran Parsaeian, Mohammad Rasoul Safari,:Baran khoshBin, Medisa Jama’ati, Amirali Azimi
Director:Kiarash Pouyan, Screenplay:Yaghma Yarali, based on a story by Kiarash Pouyan, Producer:Yousef SalimiNamin, Executive producer:SaharHoseini, DOP:RouzbehRaeiga, Production designer:Behzad Jafari, Make up and hair:Mohsen Darsanj, VFX Supervisor: Roya Ghadimi, VFX Consultant:SeyedHadi Eslami, Photographer:Majid Talebi, Sound designer:Omid Ashouri, Edit: Seyed Reza Mehrparvar, Story board:Avesta Farvardin, Coloration: Saman MajdVafaei, Music: Media Hashemi, Sound editor: Majid Aghaei, Production manager :Soheil Abdollahi, Casting: Mohammad Ziksari, First assistant director: Yasaman Cheraghali, Project executive:Arash Sarhangi, Assistant production manager: Alireza Bakhshi, Logistics: Saeid Anvar, Backstage camera man: Vahid salami, Media advisor: Mehdi Soleimani Parchluei.
A mother is trying to give a birth to a new generation for today's society. A mother who has a problems like war, corona, environment, poverty, corruption, a sexual look to woman and so much nowadays challenge's. A dilemma between birth and abortion. And love is that mothers emotion when she hugs her helpless child feels.
Pregnancy is one of the most difficult times in a woman's life. There are many mental and physical challenges in this era. One of these challenges is the possibility of abortion or thinking about this issue due to issues and problems such as war, economic and political issues, security issues and so on.
During pregnancy, such challenges cause doubts and sometimes decisions about abortion.
The short film “Redemption”, adapted from the book “letter to a child never born”, depicts the challenges of a pregnant woman's life in a surreal atmosphere.
What was your motivation for making the film?
My motivation is necessarily to show the declining world community.
A society that is involved in the radical culture of dictatorship and the exploitation of television. The environment, the tradition, the generation that is declining and tired of any oppression and cruelty.
The book "letter to a child never born" can be called the best book by Oriana Fallaci. This book is written in the form of a letter from a young woman who is supposed to be the author herself, to the fetus in her womb, to inform her unborn child about the problems of the world and its atrocities.
Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production with origins in Paris in the 1920s. The movement used shocking, irrational, or absurd imagery and Freudian dream symbolism to challenge the traditional function of art to represent reality.
The works of surrealism in Iran are few and far between for a variety of reasons, including a lack of audiences and a lack of screenplays. The short film "Redemption" takes a different look at the issue of childbearing and the war and the challenges of a mother's mind, in a surreal atmosphere, which turns this film into an innovative film with a look at a famous novel.
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