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Unveiled

2005 · 1h 40m · N/A Drama
Directed by Angelina Maccarone

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Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens after a few month in which she has tried to come to terms with a situation which is actually an insufferable one for her? How does Fariba live not only in this external state of exile but also in an inner state of exile? The term "in orbit" is officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all.

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[A] condemnation of German immigration practices as well as official Iranian intolerance toward love between women.

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh

Tabatabai delivers a strong performance and the script, although not always plausible, touches on important issues like bias against gays and Muslims.

V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh

The parts are more valuable than the whole in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled.

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Fresh

Unveiled tells the story of an Iranian translator who flees her homeland after falling in love with a married woman, only to be refused asylum in Germany.

Dana Stevens, New York Times
Fresh

[A] serious and well-paced drama.

John Anderson, Newsday

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