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SYNOPSIS
Goli is a young girl from an Afghan immigrant family living in Tehran. To continue her studies at the university, she must travel to Afghanistan and obtain a legal Iranian visa not to be expelled from the university. Loneliness, poor financial conditions, lack of family support and the dangers in Afghanistan have made the trip very difficult for Goli. But she is not willing to get dropped out of the school and is resolved to overcome the obstacles.
Duration : 72′
Release Date : 2023
Country of Production : Iran
Director : Jaber Motahari Zadeh
Producer : Jaber Motahari Zadeh
Cinematography : Payam Azizi & Amir Sadeghi
Sound : Javad Yamghi & Davood Gholipour
Editor : Mohammad Sajad Motahri Zadeh
Goli Ghasemi is a 23-year-old immigrant Afghan girl in Iran. She is studying psychology at a university in Tehran, a field she has loved since childhood and has mentioned her interest about it in her elementary school letters. Goli is an illegal immigrant and has been accepted on a university scholarship because of her high diploma grade. She has only a few months to travel to Afghanistan to obtain an Iranian visa for legal residence, otherwise she will be expelled from the university.
Goli’s father died ten years ago and she lives with her mother. She has many intellectual differences with her mother and even her sisters in terms of beliefs and lifestyle, and these differences have caused their lifestyles to be incompatible. They sometimes face serious conflicts with each other. She does not accept the traditional beliefs of her mother’s generation, beliefs that oppose girls’ education. They believe that Afghan girls should get married at a young age. Goli’s family has repeatedly asked her to force her to marry and stop her from studying, but she resisted hard and did not comply, so her mother and brothers refused to support her materially and spiritually. Today, when she has to go to Afghanistan to get a visa, her mother and brothers do not support her and she has to find a way for this dangerous journey herself.
The high cost of travel, the insecurity in Afghanistan and the apprehension that goes back to her childhood and past, the fear of troubles from her relatives in Afghanistan for not getting married, etc. are issues that make the travel difficult.
Jaber Motahari Zadeh is Iranian independent produce, writer and director who has Born in 1990. Jaber started his career by attending university and studying Cinema Directing in 2009. He has already written and directed several short and mid-length documentary films and he made her first feature documentary film in the end of 2022 to be ready for the international markets and festivals. He is a member of Documentary Filmmakers Guild of Iran.
