The Sealed Soil

Join us at the Union Cinema on Thursday, October 2nd at 7pm. This film is the earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili. The Sealed Soil chronicles a young woman’s resistance to her forced marriage, a rebellion quickly misinterpreted by her family as demonic possession. Breathtaking in its directorial sophistication and restraint, and unblinking in its critique of institutionalized misogyny, this is a too-long-underseen masterstroke of world cinema.

An Arbelos/Venera Films co-release.