AS IF MOTHER CRIED THAT NIGHT

ENGAR MADARAM GERISTE BUD AAN SHAB

By Hoda TAHERI

DEUTSCHE FILM-UND FERNSEHAKADEMIE BERLIN (DFFB) - as SALES All rights

Drama - Completed 2023

An Iranian couple clings to motherhood as a possible tool to stay in Germany, unravelling a web of uncertainty and sacrifice in their desperate quest for asylum.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2023
Pardi di domani
winterthur 2023
competition
Interfilm Berlin 2023
competition
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • FARSI, GERMAN
    • Director(s)
    • Hoda TAHERI
    • Writer(s)
    • Magdalena JACOB, Boris HADZIJA, Hoda TAHERI
    • Producer(s)
    • Julia Rose GOSTYNSKI
    • Synopsis
    • Sirvan and Hoda, an Iranian couple whose asylum application was rejected in Germany, live in a refugee camp in Berlin. In order to obtain a residence permit, they decide that Hoda should become pregnant by a German man, in order to give both of them the right to stay in Germany. As we pursue this unconventional path of getting a permission to stay, we lose ourselves in the labyrinth of German bureaucracy and remain there with no solution and with the bitter feeling that current laws and structures are deeply questionable.