Negin Tahamtan

Yazdan, a man in his mid thirties, is the only family his grandmother has. Her eyesight and hearing are fading, she lives with Alzheimer’s, and she refuses to leave the apartment she no longer fully recognizes. When Israeli airstrikes reach Tehran and her caretaker flees the city, Yazdan remains behind as her sole companion, bound to someone who has no idea there is a war going on outside. Inside the apartment, distant explosions and fragments of television broadcasts intrude, yet their shared reality divides: for her, nothing has changed; for him, everything has. What unfolds is not a story of conflict but of perception – an intimate portrait of love, absence, and the fragile boundary between remembering and forgetting.

Amirali who has came to Iran for a short trip 7 years after his emigration to Germany, goes with his old friend Mahyar to their family villa in the north of the country.

The film addresses the issue of execution as one of the most fundamental human crises. Through the story of a young athlete, the film raises a universal question: how can individual aspirations and freedom collapse in the face of legal violence and social pressures? On the final night, some rules and restrictions are challenged, and the possibility of redefining freedom is formed. Produced with limited resources, this work attempts to recreate the lived experience of the crisis of freedom in the language of cinema. By transforming an underground bunker into a prison space and building all the sets with his own hands, the director has turned limitations into an opportunity for creativity.