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Motherly

2013 · 6 min

A quiet, tender short that builds gentle suspense around a mother's nervous wait, drawing you into her anxious hope.

Directed by
Navid Nikkhah Azad
Genres
Drama
Starring
Shirin Bina, Sajjad Deyrmina, Marieh Mashallahi
Overview
A blind woman is going to meet her wheelchair-accessible son in a park. She is both anxious and expectant about meeting his new girlfriend.

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Directed by
Navid Nikkhah Azad
Genres
Drama
Starring
Shirin Bina, Sajjad Deyrmina, Marieh Mashallahi
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • family
  • isolation
  • love
  • identity
Places
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Navid Nikkhah Azad
Written by
Vahid Nikkhah Azad
Starring
Shirin Bina, Sajjad Deyrmina, Marieh Mashallahi, Safoora Kazempour
Runtime
6 min
Country
Iran
Languages
Persian

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