Over the past few years, Hoda Taheri (Tehran, 1992) has toured many a film festival with her short films Mother Prays All Day Long (2022), As If Mother Cried That Night (2023), and Mother is a Natural Sinner (2024), the first of which you can watch via Kortfilm.be’s video-on-demand catalogue. In this “mother trilogy”, Taheri zooms in on relevant issues such as the right to abortion and the treatment of refugees in Europe. She takes on the lead role herself, cunningly and humorously dramatising her own biography.
