VENICE 2026 Giornate degli Autori
Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri • Directors of I Plant My Hand in the Garden
“Our films are always somehow in a continuous conversation with one other”
by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico
VENICE 2026: The directing duo blur autobiography and fiction to explore what it means to be a family, amid migration, identity and parenthood
In their feature debut playing in Venice's 23rd Giornate degli Autori, I Plant My Hand in the Garden, directing duo Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadžija blur autobiography and fiction to explore what it means to be a family. Amid migration, identity and parenthood, the film portrays a couple striving to elude the roles that society has already assigned to them.















