Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

The Marriage Project

Hesam Eslami Atieh Attarzadeh 2020 France, Iran, Qatar Docu color 80min Persian DCP
★ 2020 the 51st Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Switzerland

Encourage the patients from a mental hospital to form relationships with each other, get married and live as a family. That’s the bold new idea of the head of Ehsan House in Southern Tehran. For the past 20 years, its 480 patients have lived in separate male and female units with no hope of ever leaving or of having meaningful sexual relationships. A sensitive and delicate film on personal relationships and the complex notion of madness.

Director

Hesam Eslami

He started to work as an editor and director for TV channels in 2009. In 2017 his first feature-length documentary 20th Circuit Suspects premiered at Hot Docs.

Atieh Attarzadeh

With cinema studies and documentary filmmaking backgrounds, she has accomplished three short documentary films, The Marriage Project is her first feature-length documentary.

Hesam Eslami

2020 The Marriage Project 婚姻計畫

2017  20th Circuit Suspects 

Atieh Attarzadeh

2020 The Marriage Project 婚姻計畫

2014  17 years old 

2016  Forty days of pine

2010 I am an ordinary woman

Directors, Scriptwriters: Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami

Producers: Etienne de Ricaud, Hesam Eslami

Editor: Farid Daghagheleh

Sound Designer: Mehrshad Malakouti

Music Composer: Amen Feizabadi

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