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Butterflies Live Only One Day, is a 2022 Iranian movie, directed by Mohammadreza Vatandoust, and starring Manzar Lashgari, Maryam Rostami, Neda Habibi. with a runtime of 77 minutes.
Butterflies Live Only One Day is an Iranian drama centered on an elderly woman who has taken a vow of absolute silence — and kept it. Her singular, consuming obsession is obtaining government permission to enter a remote island where someone she loves is waiting. After thirteen relentless years of bureaucratic denial, she refuses to give up, quietly searching for another way in. The film is a meditation on waiting, endurance, and the quiet ferocity of love expressed through action rather than words. With minimal dialogue by design, it challenges viewers to read emotion in stillness — a distinctive and deeply affecting piece of world cinema.
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