Where: Drexel University URBN Annex 3401 Filbert St
Price: $14
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The earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili’s 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. (Marva Nabili, Iran, 1977, 90 min.) In Farsi with English subtitles
