Bahar, an 8 year old Iranian girl, thinks she has caused the death of her grandmother. As she's dealing with her feelings of guilt, her parents decide to steal the body in the middle of night. As Baha'is in Shi'a Iran, they risk everything when they spirit the body away so they can perform their prohibited religious rituals.
Minuet For A Disappearance is a visual poem, written and crafted by the filmmaker for her father, a political prisoner in Iran. Along with drawings on 16mm film and a violin piece from her childhood, her father's letters, his gifts, his phone calls and a stealthily-recorded video from within the prison walls, constitute the verses.
This film is a response to the violence and horror that ensued during the 2019 protests in Iran. And it’s a protest itself to the whole world diverting their eyes as over 100 men, women and children were killed on the streets of Iran.
