Motherland
سرزمین مادری
In 1979, at the height of the Iran hostage crisis, Babak goes on a trip to meet his fiancé’s parents and ends up confronting the realities of what it means to be an Iranian immigrant in a patriotic post-Vietnam America.
- Original title: سرزمین مادری
- Country: Canada
- Year: 2023
- Length: 24
- Language: Engelsk, persisk / English, Persian
- Director: Jasmin Mozaffari
- Script: Jasmin Mozaffari
- Photography: Farhad Ghaderi
- Editing: Alexander Farah
- Production design: Helen Kotsonis
- Costume: Mara Zigler
- Cast: Behtash Fazlali, Oriana Leman, John Ralston, Niaz Salimi
- Producer: Caitlin Grabham, Priscilla Galvez, Jasmin Mozaffari
- Contact: caitlin.grabham(at)gmail.com
Jasmin Mozaffari
Jasmin Mozaffari is an award-winning Toronto-based film & television writer/director who studied film at Ryerson University. Her short films Firecrackers (2013), Wave (2015) og Sleep on the Tracks (2017) screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and numerous other festivals across Europe and the US. Her debut feature Firecrackers put her on the map, and after premiering at TIFF in 2018, it won Best Film at the Stockholm International Film Festival and two Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, including for Achievement in Direction.