The Unseen

Iran2019documentary61'Opowieści ze świata. Świat kobiet (2020)

Prostitution, drug addiction, violence and homelessness are everyday experiences of the protagonists of Behzad Nalbandi’s animated documentary. For these women, meeting the director is a chance for empowerment. They are still young but already disillusioned. The world does not want them, their families are ashamed of them, they have never had friends and their lovers harm them. They are called cardboard box sleepers because cardboard boxes are their home before they end up in a shelter at the outskirts of Iran's capital city. And they simply vanish there, left without adequate support or medical care.