Jafar Panahi sets out to find a young woman with a golden voice that has been forbidden to sing by Iranian authorities.
Jafar Panahi’s short follows him, his daughter and her theater-producer friend to a remote Kurdish village to visit a woman, a preternaturally gifted singer, whose traditional family refuses to allow her to perform publicly. What they find is a secret to be kept hidden, but yearning to break free.
Title: HIDDEN (2020)
Directed by: Jafar Panahi
Date of birth: 11 July 1960, Mianeh, Iran
Country: France | Iran
Language: Farsi
Color: Color
Runtime: 18 min.