International drama in several languages (English, Persian, Serbian, German). It is a partly fictionalized true story that blurs the lines between fiction and autobiographical documentary. Real-life people play semi-fictional versions of themselves. The movie made its world premiere in September at the Giornate degli Autori section of the Venice Film Festival before screening at other international festivals.
IMDb: 5.5
Of particular interest for this blog is the fact that Hoda, the co-author and co-director, went Full Merlant with gynecological nudity.
Hoda, an Iranian refugee living in Berlin, and Boris, a Serbian pianist, are getting married. She is pregnant and sleeps with women, he is gay, and neither of them is entirely sure what kind of family they are actually building. When Hoda’s mother and sister travel from Iran for the wedding in Belgrade, two families who share no common language sit down at the same breakfast table, each quietly negotiating with the shadow of absent or impossible fathers. Real family members play versions of themselves throughout, blurring documentary and fiction into an image that neither label quite fits, while Berlin and Belgrade become a study in passport privilege – whose mobility counts, whose doesn’t, and what it costs to cross a border that was never really about geography.
Hoda Taheri
Hoda Taheri and Julia Rose Gostinsky
One of the most explicit shots i have seen in a film i think.
You should watch her other film, Mother Prays All Day Long.
The camera literally goes inside her girlfriends vadge and shows her cervix.