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Mother Is a Natural Sinner

film type mockumentary, fiction Production Country Germany production year 2024 runtime 15'00 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3) sound format Dolby A original-language German, Farsi subtitles German, English

Hoda, an Iranian refugee in Germany, lives with her boyfriend, Hadi. An unexpected pregnancy leads her to examine common beliefs regarding gender roles in a relationship and challenges the current social norms surrounding feminine bodies and motherhood.

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director Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri Production Maximilian Feldkamp DOP Selma von Polheim Gravesen Cast Hadi Khanjanpour, Hoda Taheri Script Hoda Taheri, Boris Hadžija Editing Boris Hadžija Szenenbild / Production Design Michael Schindlmeier Sound Design Nils Plambeck film school Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Festivals
2024 Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
2024 Tirana International Film Festival, Albania (Best Short Film)
2024 Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
2024 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
2024 FestCurtasBH - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil
2024 Festival Internacional de Jóvenes Realizadores, Granada, Spain (Best Film)
2024 Curtocircuíto - Festival Internacional de Cinema e Artes Visuais, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Awards
2025 Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis in Gold - Kategorie Spielfilm bis 15 Minuten Laufzeit Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2025
School
  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
  • Friedrich-Krause-Ufer 19
  • 13353 Berlin
  • http://www.dffb.de
Production
  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
  • Anna Laura Wenzel
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • +49 30 25759152
  • http://www.dffb.de
Distribution
  • Lights On
  • Flavio Armone
Sales
  • Lights On
  • Flavio Armone

Boris Hadžija

Boris Hadžija is a Serbian filmmaker and musician born 1990 in SFR Yugoslavia and currently living in Berlin. He received his MA Classical Piano from the University of Arts Belgrade. He studied film directing at the FAMU and at the DFFB.

Filmography
2020 Zurück in den Westen
2021 Ein einfaches Ereignis
2022 YUGOTRANSPORT - Wir sitzen alle im selben Bus
2024 Mother is a Natural Sinner

Portrait of Boris Hadžija

Hoda Taheri

Hoda Taheri, born 1992 in Iran, is an Iranian refugee artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. In 2016 Taheri was awarded her BA Visual Communication from Limkokwing University, Malaysia.

Filmography
2019 I Have Small Breasts
2021 Drei
2022 Madar tamame rooz doa mikhanad
2024 Mother is a Natural Sinner

Portrait of Hoda Taheri