Roya, an Iranian teacher imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison for her political beliefs, is faced with a choice: make a forced televised confession or remain confined to her three-square-metre cell. As past and present slip out of sequence and exchange places, she moves between inner landscapes and lived experience.
Melisa Sözen
Roya
Maryam Palizban
Samira
Hadmidreza Djavdan
Father
Mohammad Ali Hosseinalipour
Interrogator
Bacho Meburishvili
Doctor
Gholamhassan Taseiri
Haji
Babak Radmehr
Hassina Burgan
Roya, an Iranian teacher imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison for her political beliefs, is faced with a choice: make a forced televised confession or remain confined to her three-square-metre cell. As past and present slip out of sequence and exchange places, she moves between inner landscapes and lived experience.
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