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Direction
Samira Makhmalbaf was 17. SEVENTEEN. The confidence is criminal.
Production
Real family, real house, scripted reenactment — ethics? What ethics?
Cinematography
Walls closing in, then sudden blinding Tehran sunlight.

Director
Samira Makhmalbaf
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