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I PLANT MY HAND IN THE GARDEN

by Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri

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)

Photogallery 03/09/2026: Venice 2026 - I Plant My Hand in the Garden

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Hoda Taheri, Boris Hadžija
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