Exhale

In the French historical novel Les Misérables, Victor Hugo reminds us that “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise”. There will come a day when we finally exhale the deadly breath of misery, fear and isolation that our everyday lives have become ubiquitous with. In this real-life drama which pulls us away from this tasteless new reality of life into the finest moments of togetherness in a ‘normal’ version of life lived in a post- or pre-pandemic era, we share the bedside of an elderly grandmother as she looks back on seven frames of her life leading to these very last breaths of loneliness and distress.

Directed by Hossein Heidari (USA)