Short of the Week
A Move
Directed by Elahe Esmaili · 2024
Elahe returns to Mashhad to help her parents leave the home they've lived in for 40 years, hoping the Woman-Life-Freedom movement will bring a bigger move too.
A personal, quietly political family documentary from inside Iran's protest era.
Elahe returns to her hometown in Mashhad, Iran, to help her parents move to a new place after 40 years. Influenced by the Woman-Life-Freedom movement, she's also hoping for a bigger move, not only a new apartment.
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