Writer / Director Ensieh Shah-Hosseini was the only female war correspondent to report from the frontlines of the Iran-Iraq War (1980 – 1988). She has taken those personal experiences and woven them into Goodbye, Life – a riveting war drama that evolves into a story of personal transformation.

Maryam is in the throes of divorce. She has pulled strings both militarily and journalistically to get to the frontlines. Secretly hoping to go out in a blaze of glory, she instead finds her worldview inexorably altered by the tragedy she witnesses.

Unlike Western war films, Goodbye, Life isn’t about standard heroics. Maryam is frightened, confused – indeed, once she decides she wants to live, her goal is to hightail back to Tehran – she is a real human being who becomes heroic by simply figuring out a way to survive. Goodbye, Life is not – as the title may suggest – a film about death. Instead, it is a film about re-affirming what it means to live. - Wm. Brian Owens

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THE WAR
Luiso Berdejo, Jorge C. Dorado, Spain, 9 minutes

The horrors of war are vividly on display in this riveting WWII drama about a French child trying to protect a baby from a pursuing Nazi soldier.