被征用的土地 خاک مهر شده (1977)

Khake Sar Beh Mohr

Made in 1977, Marva Nabili’s The Sealed Soil anticipates the formal asceticism of the films that would follow Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. It also offers a feminist corrective to the male-dominated concerns of that post-revolutionary cinema. 18-year-old Rooy-Bekheir is like a stone, obstinate and unmoveable. Throughout the film she mostly sits: at the courtyard hearth, oppos...