The Sealed Soil

The earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili’s The Sealed Soil chronicles a young woman’s resistance to her forced marriage, a rebellion quickly misinterpreted by her family as demonic possession. Breathtaking in its directorial sophistication and restraint and unblinking in its critique of institutionalized misogyny, this long-underseen masterstroke of world cinema—now brilliantly restored in vivid 4K.