INHALE – LAGHA GHAVAM + MOHSEN POURYOUSEFIAN
A young woman is trapped in emotional limbo after years of social suppression in Iran. She is suspended in stillness as life echoes faintly around her. Distant explosions punctuate her isolation, and every attempt to move forward is disrupted by external forces. As she gradually dissolves into nature, the film meditates on the fragility of human existence. Though the seasons shift from winter to spring, she remains frozen in silence and solitude.
This film emerged from the emotional aftermath of years of social repression and the psychological weight carried by many women living under systemic restrictions in Iran. Rather than portraying these realities through direct narrative, the film explores their invisible consequences using a poetic and observational cinematic language. The protagonist’s stillness becomes both a response to prolonged oppression and a quiet act of resistance, while the surrounding world continues to move, change, and collapse. The recurring sound of distant explosions extends the film’s emotional landscape beyond personal experience, connecting intimate trauma with broader cycles of violence and uncertainty. Filmed through the changing seasons, from winter to spring, the work reflects on the persistence of emotional paralysis despite the promise of renewal. Blending elements of performance, landscape, and slow cinema, the film invites viewers to contemplate resilience, vulnerability, and the fragile relationship between the human body, memory, and nature.
- Titel: Inhale
- Director//Regie: Lagha Ghavam + Mohsen Pouryousefian
- Choreography//Choreographie: Lagha Ghavam
- Country of Production//Land: Iran
- Year of Production//Jahr: 2025
- Duration//Dauer: 00:06:43
- Dance and Performance//Tanz: Lagha Ghavam
- Camera//Kamera: Amirhossein Taghavi
- Montage: Mohsen Pouryousefian
- Sound//Ton: Mahoor Mirshakkak
- Screenplay//Drehbuch: Mohsen Pouryousefian + Lagha Ghavam
- Webpage//Webseite: https://filmfreeway.com/MohsenPouryousefian