The Marriage Project
1x60'/90'
The Marriage Project
Synopsis
Encourage the patients from a mental hospital to form relationships with each other, get married and live as a family. That’s the bold new idea of the head of Ehsan House in Southern Tehran. For the past 20 years, its 480 patients have lived in separate male and female units with no hope of ever leaving or of having meaningful sexual relationships.
But in 2017, the head of the centre secured the money to build a new unit of marital facilities. Despite strong opposition, he was convinced the patients would benefit from being in a couple.
As a selection committee begins evaluating patients, hidden affections come to the surface. Finally, the team selects two patients to form the first couple. Are these two patients capable of having a relationship that leads to marriage? What do their families think? And what about the patients who weren’t selected but still crave human relationships?
Presented on behalf of Java Films.
Keywords & Tags
Hospital, Iran, Marriage
Language
English
Duration
1x60'/90'
Format
HD
Genre(s)
Human Interest, Society
Production Company
Caracteres Productions
Worldwide Distribution
Java Films
Country
France, Iran, Qatar
Year
2020
Director(s)
Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami