The Sealed Soil

(Marva Nabili, 1977, Iran, 91 minutes)

New 4K restoration!

The earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili’s The Sealed Soil chronicles a young woman’s resistance to her forced marriage, a rebellion quickly misinterpreted by her family as demonic possession. Breathtaking in its directorial sophistication and restraint, and unblinking in its critique of institutionalized misogyny, The Sealed Soil was shot on 16mm, smuggled out of the country for editing, and was long underseen. This new 4K restoration toured the festival circuit starting with Il Cinema Ritrovado last year, where it was a breakout hit, and can now find the audience it has long deserved.

In Persian with English subtitles.

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