The Recess (2020)
Sahar a 17 year old student is determined to skip high school during the recess to attend the football stadium to watch the football match between Esteghlal F.C. vs. Al-Ain as part of AFC Champions League against the national ban on women to enter football stadiums in Iran.
- Somayeh Shahrabi
- Navid Nikkhah Azad
- Navid Nikkhah Azad
Rating: 9.5/10 by 2 users
Alternative Title:
El Recreo - ES
زنگ تفریح - IR
Die Pause - DE
Country:
Iran
Language:
English
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Deutsch
فارسی
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Runtime: 00 hour 12 minutes
Budget: $10,000
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: stadium, controversy, football (soccer), human rights, gender disguise, self immolation, blue girl, sahar khodayari
"The Recess" is a short film of high value that gives the audience a good understanding of a tragic story based on true events; a true story with a missing point of beginning, a story no one knows the real facts behind it. The movie puts emphasis and stress on the smallest details of a sensitive situation. The dialogues between the four students (Sahar, Aida, Tahoora and Sara) are perfectly written, which is unparalleled among Iranian short films, for being so realistic. Director Navid Nikkhah Azad intentionally does not show the real tragedy which happened after school, and this makes the audience not to lose the image of the tragic self-immolation of Sahar Khodayari (Blue Girl) even for a single moment. Even those who have never heard of the tragic incident, can perfectly understand the movie and sympathize with the main character. The viewer is presented with texts explaining that Sahar Khodayari was caught, and later on, a possible sentence of six months in prison awaited her and to protest her sentence, she self-immolated until she eventually died from her injuries.
