THE HUSBAND

The Husband

(Shohar-e Setareh)

Directed by: Ebrahim Irajzad

Written by: Ebrahim Irajzad, Neda Rasouli

Producers: Ali Oji, Narges Mohammadi

Production Company: Oji Film

Director of Photography: Alireza Barazandeh

Editors: Ebrahim Irajzad, Hanieh Jelokhani

Music: Hamed Sabet

Production Designer: Pouria Akhavan

Costume Designer: Zahra Samadi

Sound: Alireza Alavian

Make-up Artist: Reyhaneh Adelnezhad

Visual Effects: Ali Jebelli

Cast: Fariba Naderi (Setareh), Hamed Behdad (Younes), Nazanin Ahmadi (Maliheh), Farideh Sepah Mansour (old woman), Nooshin Masoudian (Mahin).

Iran, 2025, DCP, 2K, Alexa Mini LF, Color, 1.33:1, 5.1, 101 mins.

Synopsis:

Setareh is a widow whose husband has died in an accident after marrying his second wife. Now if she wants to give birth to her own child, she has to seek a husband desperately. In her path of life, she confronts different women victims in the society – a victim of acid attack, a victim of domestic violence, a victim of oldness and loneliness, a victim of limitations for women musicians and bitter memories of the victims of prejudice against women footballers…

Director’s View:

In Iran, we are under pressure, coming from a radical minority, imposing their ideas to the majority. So it looks like that when I, as a filmmaker, intend to talk about the women suffering from the bans on singing and playing and watching football, the acid attacks, the wife-beating and the consumerism, I should be put in the prison – and unfortunately it might happen so easily! After what we witnessed all around the country, I only try to underline the point that we should respect Iranian women more and more…

Director’s Profile:

Born in 1981 in Mashhad, Ebrahim Irajzad studied cinema and made seven short films. In 2017, he directed his debut feature, SEARING SUMMER, which was premiered in Stockholm IFF. His second feature film, KILLER SPIDER, focusing on the story of a fanatic serial killer in Mashhad, started its way into the international circuit at Busan IFF 2020.

Feature Films: 2017- Searing Summer; 2020- Killer Spider; 2025- The Husband.

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