LGBTQ+
MITOSIS Kaveh is a LGBT sculptor. He lives in Iran and lives in isolation because of his sexual orientation. He has a lover named Farhad. Their relationship is not very good. It is Kaveh who is not happy with this relationship, he lives in his workshop because of the repression of LGBTs in Iran. He is making a statue when he suddenly realizes that this statue is talking to him. The words of the statue are not clear and are more like chatter. He breaks up his relationship with Farhad like his previous relationships, because something more than sex requires a relationship. He enjoys being alone more, but now he realizes that Farhad has destroyed the only statue they made together. The whispering sound of the statue increases and every moment Kaveh's mental state is more disturbed, to the point that he works day and night to build that statue. The statue is completed as if the statue is the lost lover of Kaveh. By completing the statue of Kaveh, he himself becomes a statue.
Part 1 of 2"Mitosis" directed by RAHA ZAHRA HAJIZEINAL
Kaveh is a LGBT sculptor. He lives in Iran and lives in isolation because of his sexual orientation. He has a lover named Farhad. Their relationship is not very good. It is Kaveh who is not happy with this relationship, he lives in his workshop because of the repression of LGBTs in Iran. He is making a statue when he suddenly realizes that this statue is talking to him. The words of the statue are not clear and are more like chatter. He breaks up his relationship with Farhad like his previous relationships, because something more than sex requires a relationship. He enjoys being alone more, but now he realizes that Farhad has destroyed the only statue they made together. The whispering sound of the statue increases and every moment Kaveh's mental state is more disturbed, to the point that he works day and night to build that statue. The statue is completed as if the statue is the lost lover of Kaveh. By completing the statue of Kaveh, he himself becomes a statue.
Director Biography - RAHA ZAHRA HAJIZEINAL Raha Hajizeinal was born in Tehran on May 26, 1987. Acting from the time of his studies at the Cinema University, theater began. Raha has made two films so far, Mitosis is her third film. She has received the best director award from the Iranian National Youth Festival for the film Niaz. Alireza Amini's cinematic film was her first professional career in the field of cinema. asphyxia, Shabash,Maman, No.9, Blue whale, and like a nightmare, including the works of Hajizeinal in the field of cinema and television. In September 2021, she staged two plays, Holodomor and Auschwitz in Kyiv, Ukraine, and at the Lviv Theater Fes
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