Iddah

Year listed: 2021

Published at the original source: 2021-01-28. This is the upload date, which may differ from the film’s release.

38 min · Malayalam · Drama

After her husband's death, a young widow observes iddah, the Islamic mourning period, spending four months and ten days confined to a closed room with no contact with the outside world. As the days pass, her grief does not stay within those walls, and the film asks how a woman endures a ritual set by faith while carrying a very human struggle, a story rarely told on screen.

Why we picked it

A Malayalam drama its makers say is the first to tell this story on screen: a young widow observing iddah, four months and ten days of seclusion. Thirty-seven minutes of grief, faith and endurance.

Bereavement, isolation, restrictive cultural expectations and emotional distress. Source-based review; not independently rated for children.

Source: Orange Media

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