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Keywords

  • Afsaneh Salari
  • Eva Neidlinger
  • Exclusive Docs: New Perspectives
  • Politics: Human Rights
  • Screen: Iran
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Topic: Mental Health
  • disability
  • Mental Health
  • middle east
  • psychology
  • relationship

Director

  • Hesam Eslami
  • Atieh Attarzadeh

Documentary, Independent

1h 19min

16+

France
Qatar
Iran
2020

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The director of a psychiatric clinic near Tehran gives patients the opportunity to marry each other, in a model project.

The director of a psychiatric clinic near Tehran gives patients the opportunity to marry each other, in a model project.


The director of a psychiatric clinic near Tehran gives patients the opportunity to marry each other, in a model project.


For the past 20 years, the 480 patients at Ehsan House have lived in separate wards for men and women, with no hope of ever having sexual relationships.

Despite strong opposition, Dr. Farhad Ramezanejad and his team select two patients who want to marry. Are the patients capable of having a relationship that leads to marriage?


"Personal, poetic and heartbreaking!!!" (Sooner curator Eva Neidlinger)


"Madness, love, and hope merge in this film - part anthropological observation, part diary - to create a heartbreaking narrative about intimate relationships." (visionsdureel.ch)

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