Katvoman, Hadi Sheibani, Iran/India, 2022, 8 min

Mother and son are playing a Catwoman-Batman game before the father comes back. Sound of screams from next door suggests the husband is again beating the wife. It’s time for the father to play a role in the game. Hadi Sheibani is a film editor and the first Iranian to be awarded a scholarship at the Asian Film Academy in 2019. Katvoman is his first short inspired by MeToo movement.