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BEHESHT ZAHRA
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| Mothers of Martyrs |
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Mehran Tamadon
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| In Behesht Zahra, Tehran's big cemetery with
over 800.000 tombs, there is an area reserved to the martyrs
of the Iran - Iraq war. Many women come here once or twice a
week to visit the tombs of their sons, young volunteers who
died for their country or for Islam. Some of these women have
been coming every week for more than twenty years. This movie
shows the lives of these mothers in this cemetery. They meet
each other, chat, cook, pray, cry and rest. And that's how they
spend their whole day on Thursdays. This movie takes up the
challenge never to leave the cemetery, and yet to speak about
life. It is the expression of a paradox: how a place of death
can turn into a place of life, occupied by a large population,
essentially women, or mothers that themselves symbolize birth
or life. . |
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Photography (colour) Firouzeh Khosrovani, Mehran Tamadon
Editing Fardin Saheb-Zamani
Production Mehran Tamadon
Year of production 2004
Running time 47'
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Mehran Tamadon
He studied Architecture and in 2000 - 2002 he designed some buildings in Tehran and its suburbs. In 2003 he designed and realized the scenography for a theatre pice participating in the Fajr National Festival. In 2004 he wrote two books published by Mahriz in Tehran. In the same year he produced and directed the documentary Behesht Zahra - Mothers of Martyrs.
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