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"The Sealed Soil"
(Khak-e-Sar Beh Morh)
1977
Directed by Marva Nabili

The first Iranian feature by a woman, Marva Nabili's brave film focuses on a young woman who is confronted with change in pre-revolutionary Iran. She rejects a number of suitors, inviting the displeasure of her family. Soon the rigid orthodoxies of fundamentalist Islamic life prove too much for her and she faces extreme measures (including an exorcism). This film began shooting just before the revolution and had to be smuggled out for completion and distribution. Farsi with English subtitles.
90 minutes.