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Cost: Free; Registration in advance recommendedBlending dark humor and slow-burning drama, Canadian-Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani’s Mortician stars Nima Sadr as Mojtaba, a sad-sack Iranian mortician living in exile in a snowy Canadian city. His job is to wash bodies according to Muslim tradition, but the company he works for is going out of business.
But then an exiled singer approaches him with a mysterious offer. Jana (Iran-born pop star Gola) is on the run from the Iranian authorities and plans to commit suicide as a political statement. And she wants to retain Mojtaba’s services. As she works to convince him, an odd-couple friendship evolves, and Mojtaba must wrestle with his faith. Variety’s Guy Lodge calls it “a trenchant, witty and penetratingly sad black comedy on the difficulty of escaping the Iranian regime—even halfway across the world.”
Director: Abdolreza Kahani. Country: Canada. Released: 2025. Length: 94 min. Format: DCP. Language: Persian with English subtitles.
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