EXAM - SONIA HADAD (2019)

Written by Iranians Farnoosh Samadi and Sonia Hamad, and directed by the latter, Exam was a hit on the festival circuit, winning at Sundance. Although it takes its time to get going, being in my view too slow-paced for the first five minutes, once the drama hits it is a riveting watch. In this tense drama, a teenage schoolgirl - Sadaf - is asked by her father to pass on a small bag of cocaine on her way to school. However, when the buyer fails to arrive on time, and late for an exam, she continues to school with the drugs still in her school bag. You might ask why, if random bag checks take place in her strict Islamic school, she did not hide the cocaine somewhere safer; but I think you can guess the tricky situation she soon finds herself in. If you like the Sundance winning Exam by Sonia Hamad be sure it rate it and share it.