Iranian husband-and-wife team Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi’s Oscar-nominated short In the Shadow of the Cypress has been on a winning streak since it debuted at the Venice International Film Festival in 2023. We were thrilled when the talented couple agreed to share some of their favorite family photos with us in this issue:
We took this photo in the early days of our relationship when we began work on the short, Run Rostam Run (2015).
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This is Hossein at a barber shop in 2015, four years before he was diagnosed with alopecia.
One of our wedding photos in Venice, where our short In the Shadow of the Cypress premiered.
Shirin takes a selfie at the Tochal
mountaintop in northern Tehran,
in the winter of ’22.
Shrin chooses not to wear the compulsory hijab in the
deeply religious city of Kashan in 2022.
Here we are playing a board game at Shirin’s parent’s home during Nowruz, the Persian New Year (March of 2020)
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It’s always fun to spend time with our
closest friends at parties.
Our adopted street cat, Pepperoni, helps us open a present at Christmas.
You can watch the trailer for the short below:
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