Love Your Nails!

film type mockumentary, experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2025 runtime 8'30 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3) sound format 5.1 Audiomix original-language German synced, English subtitles German, English

The film portrays a fantasy world, in which traditional gender roles are reversed. In this world, women are born with natural weapons — their long fingernails. These nails can be used for anything: Hunting, fighting, even giving birth. The nails give the women power. Men, on the other hand, must endure great suffering — just as women have throughout real-world history. The film poses a provocative question: What if women used their power the way men do today?

director Narges Kalhor DOP Nina Wesemann Animation Gerrit Schweiger Original Score Marja Burchard Sound Design Philip Hutter Script Narges Kalhor, Aydin Alinejad Editing Narges Kalhor Production Clay Coleman - OASYSDIGITAL GmbH
Production
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  • Nicholas Coleman
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  • Nicholas Coleman
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Narges Kalhor

Born 1984 in Tehran, Narges Kalhor took graphic design studies at the Film Academy of Tehran. She works as an assistant director and editor on documentaries, short and feature films. In 2010 she received political asylum in Germany. From 2010 to 2019 she studied at the University of Television and Film Munich.

Filmography
2007 We Must Have Died
2008 Die Egge
2011 Munich - Tehran
2014 Kafan
2014 Lavashak
2016 Gis
2019 In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran
2023 Sensitive content
2025 Love Your Nails!