Soraya
NARRATIVE / 8 MINUTES 30 SECONDS / ENGLISH SUBTITLES / IRAN
Soraya is the story of one of thousands of Iranian women who decide to have an intentional abortion out of fear of family prejudices, but due to this surgery being illegal in Iran, Soraya is forced to leave her country secretly with the help of smugglers.
“At the beginning of the protests, I had to travel to Iran. It was in those same days that I received a proposal to make a short film. I decided to depict the problems and demands of Iranian women.”
– Maryam Rahimi, Director of SORAYA
CREDITS
Writer: Maryam Rahimi
Director: Maryam Rahimi
Producer: Seyed Amir Parvin Hosseini
Director of Photography: Behnam Soleymani
Editor: Siavash Kordjan
Composer: Kamyar Behbahani
Starring: Oranous Ghavami, Elnaz Habibi, Sheyda Pahlevan, Parsa Mazinani, and Reza Mohebi