As if mother cried that night (2023)
directed by Hoda Taheri
screenings
76th Locarno Film Festival – Pardi di Domani 2023
German Short Film Awards – Nomination 2024
interfilm Berlin 39th International Short Film Festival Berlin 2023
27th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2023
24. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2024
23rd Las Palmas International Film Festival 2024
24. Berliner Kurzfilmrolle 2024
Concorto Film Festival 2024
30. San Giò Verona Video Festival 2024
47th Drama International Short Film Festival 2024
43. FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH 2024
exground filmfest 37 2024
Max Ophüls Film Festival – Diskurze 2025
London Short Film Festival 2025
ENCOURAGE Film Talents 2025
21. achtung berlin Filmfestival 2025
54. Lubuskie Lato Filmowe 2025 *won Bronze Grape for Best Shortfilm
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 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.
