Don’t Remove the Soil, Navid Mihandoost, Iran, 2022, Fiction, 15 min

A man is sentenced to jail for his social activities. His girlfriend promises him to send messages to his cellphone that she keeps with herself. The plan is for him to read them after he is released. Navid Mihandoost is a journalist, screenwriter, and director. He has been sentenced to jail for making a documentary about Masih Alinejad, an exiled human rights activist living in the US.