Remis

Remis is the film about a young female journalist detained in July 1999 and charged with treason and blasphemy, then held in solitary confinement for more than two months at the notorious Tohid Prison in Tehran. Blindfolded, covered from head to foot in a chador, and forced to sit facing the wall through grueling interrogation sessions day after day, Camelia uses the only resources at her disposal - her wits, her beautiful hands, and her feminine charms - to seduce her interrogator and gain her freedom. Camelia's story takes place at a moment in Iranian history when the democratic reforms established by President Mohammad Khatami led to a reactionary backlash and clampdown on the press. Camelia is portrayed as someone driven by personal ambition and a desire for freedom, but who also puts her life on the line in the pursuit of her ideals. Hers is a tale fraught with moral ambivalence, deception, and compromise; her "freedom" is always relative, and not without cost.