A filmmaker falls into a coma and his wife vanishes. The camera kept rolling.
Documentary filmmaker Morteza Hosseini fell into a coma in 2008 on a remote road and his wife, Maryam Sharifi, disappeared. He and his friend Majid Shokri and Yaser Jafari were making a documentary about the transcendental forces, as if Morteza's departure was the beginning of something more sinister
Direction
Mohammadreza Lotfi weaponizes the 'is this real?' uncertainty mercilessly.
Editing
The coma footage to 'transcendental forces' pivot is genuinely unhinged.
Director
Mohammadreza Lotfi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Iranian horror's underground boom in the 2010s used lo-fi aesthetics to evade censorship while exploring forbidden spiritual territory.
The real Morteza Hosseini's medical records were reportedly consulted; the film's 'truth' status remains deliberately unresolved by design.
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