She washes a dead woman's body. She finds her husband's secrets. Fifteen minutes of pure dread.
Safieh, a 45 years old woman was forced to wash one of the residence of the town after her death. She finds a connection between the deceased and her husband while washing the corpse...
Acting
Shirin Bina's face does everything in near-silence.
Direction
Jabbari Asl makes corpse-washing unbearably tense.
Cinematography
Close-ups that refuse to let you look away.
Director
Parisa Jabbari Asl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film centers the Islamic ritual of ghusl al-mayyit, traditionally performed by same-sex washers—here weaponized as revelation.
Parisa Jabbari Asl uses the short format as constraint, not limitation: the runtime mirrors Safieh's trapped, breathless discovery.
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