I Plant My Hand in the Garden

Plot

Hoda, an Iranian refugee living in Berlin, is pregnant and in love with Boris, a queer gay man from Serbia. Together, they decide to marry and raise the child, imagining a future built on their own terms. As they prepare for the wedding and enter more deeply into each other’s worlds, their relationship is seriously tested by all the red tape and their families’ expectations and histories that neither of them can leave behind. Surrounded by relatives, memories and inherited ideas of love and parenthood, Hoda and Boris begin to question the roles they are about to take on. What starts as a plan to become a family gradually turns into a more intimate and uncertain question: can they reinvent what it means to be a couple without losing what brought them together?

About I Plant My Hand in the Garden

I Plant my Hand in the Garden is a 2026 autobiographical-drama film written and directed by Boris Hadžija and Hoda Taheri, marking the duo's debut feature. A co-production between Germany, Serbia, and the United States, it follows fictional versions of Hadžija and Taheri, as they decided to raise a child. The film had its world premiere in the Giornate degli Autori section of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2026, where it was nominated for the Queer Lion.

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