I PLANT MY HAND IN THE GARDEN
synopsis
Hoda, an Iranian refugee living in Berlin, is pregnant and in love with Boris, a queer gay man from Serbia. Together, they decide to marry and raise the child, imagining a future built on their own terms. As they prepare for the wedding and enter more deeply into each other’s worlds, their relationship is seriously tested by all the red tape and their families’ expectations and histories that neither of them can leave behind. Surrounded by relatives, memories and inherited ideas of love and parenthood, Hoda and Boris begin to question the roles they are about to take on. What starts as a plan to become a family gradually turns into a more intimate and uncertain question: can they reinvent what it means to be a couple without losing what brought them together?
| international title: | I Plant My Hand in the Garden |
| original title: | I Plant My Hand in the Garden |
| country: | Germany, Serbia, United States |
| sales agent: | Square Eyes |
| year: | 2026 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri |
| film run: | 83’ |
| screenplay: | Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri |
| cast: | Hoda Taheri, Boris Hadžija, Branka Hadžija, Jahandokht Taheri, Hadi Khanjanpour |
| cinematography by: | Vytautas Katkus |
| film editing: | Hoda Taheri, Boris Hadžija |
| art director: | Michael Schindlmeier |
| costumes designer: | Anna-Maria Scharf |
| producer: | Maximilian Feldkamp, Hoda Taheri, Boris Hadžija, Čarna Vučinić, Ena Bajraktarević |
| co-producer: | Tyler Hills |
| production: | Deutsche Film & Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) / German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB), Cruising, Naked, Mala (US) |
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