Goodbye

Mohammad Rasoulof : 2011
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Noora, a young, pregnant lawyer in Tehran whose husband has been sent to work in the desert because of his critical journalistic activities, continually faces opposition from the regime and decides to leave the country. Without her husband and without her lawyer's licence, which has been withdrawn, Noora is left alone in her apartment. Her attempt to leave Iran develops into a battle with male chauvinism. A sober, frightening portrait of a society that is stooping under the continual control and threats of its religious regime. Already banned from making films, Rasoulof shot Goodbye partly in secret in the winter of 2010/2011. The result is a disquieting film that makes impotence and the desire for freedom painfully tangible in all its simplicity. It was the winner of the Un Certain Regard award for best director at Cannes 2011.