Private Meeting (2023)

Original title

ملاقات خصوصی

Directed by

Omid Shams

Genre

romance

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman and a man in prison develop feelings for each other through phone calls. They meet secretly using a phone that the man lends to the woman's father.

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What happens

Conjugal Visit (Persian: ملاقات خصوصی, romanized: Molāqāt Xosusi, lit. 'Private Meeting') is a 2022 Iranian romantic drama film directed by Omid Shams and written by Omid Shams, Bahman Ark and Ali Sarahang. It stars Parinaz Izadyar and Hootan Shakiba as Parvaneh and Farhad, a couple who met secretly through Farhad's phone in prison which he sometimes lends to Parvaneh's father—who is in prison with Farhad—to call his daughter, and started to develop feelings for each other. Conjugal Visit premiered in competition at the 40th Fajr Film Festival on February 1, 2022, and earned 2 nominations. It was later set to release theatrically on September 29, 2022, but later postpended to January 4, 2023, due to the ongoing protests in Iran. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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