Two women lie together in bed. As the wind bashes against the window, one recalls a past date to the cinema. A love song that would never pass through the censors, Mast-del is about forbidden bodies and desires, both inside and outside post-revolution Iranian cinema.
This film is not in active distribution anymore.
Maryam Tafakory, born and raised in Iran, works with film and performance. Solo screenings of her work include MoMA, BOZAR, National Gallery of Art, and Academy Museum, among others. Selected screenings include Tate Modern, Cannes’ Directors Fortnight, New York Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival.
Selected awards include, Gold Hugo at 58th Chicago Int’l Film Festival, Tiger Short Award at 51st IFFR, and Best Experimental Film at 70th and 71st MIFF. She was the 2024 winner of Film London Jarman Award. Her work has featured in The Guardian, Le Monde, and Les Cahiers du Cinéma.
● Daria’s Night Flowers (2025) – 16‘
● Razeh-del (2024) – 28‘
● Mast-del (2023) – 17‘
● Nazarbazi (2021) – 19‘
● Irani Bag (2020) – 8‘
● I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin (2017) – 9’
● Absent Wound (2016) – 8‘
● Poem & Stone (2015) – 8‘
● Fragments of a Letter (2014) – 4‘
● Taklif (2014) – 6‘
● I was five (2014) – 5‘
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