Screening |
Film/Video
The Sealed Soil
Experience a quiet act of resistance in the earliest surviving feature directed by an Iranian woman.
Date
Feb 23, 2025
Cost
$5.00 - $10.00
Time
4 p.m.
ET
Website
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
Film/Theater
The Sealed Soil (Khak-e sar bé mohr, Marva Nabili, 1977) follows a young woman living in a poor village who must prepare to move her household after a state-directed construction project is announced. Her life is one of repetitive monotony, made more insufferable by her family’s desire for her to submit to an arranged marriage. A tale of quiet feminist resistance, the film has never screened legally in Iran, and Nabili had to smuggle the footage out of the country and finished editing it in New York. (90 mins., 4K DCP)