Mortician (2025)

Directed by

Abdolreza Kahani

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 35m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Iranian expatriate in Canada washes dead bodies for a living. When his company shuts down, an exiled pop star asks him to help her film a suicide as a social media protest.

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What happens

Mortician is a Canadian drama film, directed by Abdolreza Kahani and released in 2025. The film stars Nima Sadr as Mojtaba, an Iranian expatriate living in Canada, where he works for a company that washes dead bodies in accordance with Islamic funeral customs. When he receives notice from his boss (Mehdi Salar) that the company is shutting down and he should consider moving back to Iran, he is approached by Jana (Golazin Ardestani), an Iranian pop star also in exile who intends to commit suicide as a social media protest to raise awareness among her fans of government oppression in Iran. Kahani shot the film entirely on an iPhone, with no other camera or sound equipment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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