What if forgetting your past meant becoming someone else entirely?
Roya and Babak are a young couple who intend to emigrate from Iran. Roya's encounter with an anonymous girl is the beginning of strange events in their life.
Acting
Tannaz Tabatabaei's unraveling is magnetic and quietly devastating.
Direction
Vazirdaftari builds dread through mundane domestic spaces.
Writing
The emigration-as-horror metaphor lands with painful precision.
Director
Arian Vazirdaftari
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film operates as coded commentary on Iranian women's struggle for bodily autonomy and state control over their lives.
The title's Persian wordplay suggests both 'without her' and 'incomplete,' reflecting Roya's fragmented identity. The emigration thriller subgenre rarely feels this psychologically invasive.
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