The film materialises a fictional award ceremony in which the Islamic Regime of Iran is notoriously selected as the ‘Best Regime in the World,’ for decades, gender inequality and discrimination against women have been legally enshrined in Iran, arbitrary detention, torture and rape are some of the practises used by the government to maintain the state’s gender apartheid.
As the film unfolds, we are met with an emotional turmoil, reality and fiction come together as Mirnour fuses real footages of the ongoing protests and civil unrest alongside the fictional award show highlighting the absurdity of the situation.
On September 13th 2022, Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa ‘Zhina’ Amini was arrested by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s extrajudicial ‘morality’ police. Her crime: an alleged breach of the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab laws. Eyewitnesses reported her being violently battered by police. Within hours, she was taken to a hospital in a coma, 3 days later, the 22-year-old died. Mahsa’s death triggered wide-spread anti-regime protests across Iran sparking what we now know to be the first female-led revolution in history. A revolution which was met with severe government crackdowns. German Iranian filmmaker Omid Mirnour sheds light on the atrocities taking place by the Islamic Regime in his new short-film entitled Corruption on Earth, a political parody and satire which aims to critically depict the deplorable human rights violations and living conditions endured by Iranians since the 1979 Revolution.
Cast: Shermine Shahrivar, Garry Fischmann, Yilmaz Atmaca and many more.
About this movie
Title: Corruption on earth | Mofsede Fel Arz (2022)
Directed by: Omid Mirnour
Date of birth: .
Writing credits: Omid Mirnour
Year: 2022
Country: Germany
Language: German|English | Farsi
Color: Color
Runtime: 11 min.