"Terrestrial verses" by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami, presented at Cannes. Film shows ordinary people struggling with faceless power.
Filming in Tehran began two weeks before the death in mid-September of Mahsa Amini. In the form of "vignettes" and in a tone not devoid of humour, the sequences show each citizen in a fixed shot, the spectator hearing only the voice of their interlocutor. The idea was born after the prohibition of a shoot he wanted to do.