Abstract
Burnayan is an 18-minute narrative film shot on digital video. It is about an oppressive father-and-domesticated son relationship. Burnayan presents how victimization and liberation take place in a household, a microcosm of the patriarchal society.
The film aims to rationalize that the attainment of justice and freedom requires elimination of the roots of expression. Burnayan is a melodrama with political undertones which state that the death of the father is the death of the abusive authority. It aims to expose the relationship of the power and oppression in molding sexual, political and social identities.
