FANA: Vile Affection

After leaving an abusive relationship, a young woman spends a night alone struggling with insomnia, intrusive memories, hallucinations, and suicidal thoughts.

As she tries to keep a threatening presence outside the house, the boundary between memory, fear, and reality begins to collapse.

Vile Affection was Rita's first live-action narrative film.

Created with an extremely small production setup, the film was shot in her brother's house with Rita working as a one-person crew across story development, camera, animation, sound design, and production.

The film was inspired by a photographic series created by Maria Manafizadeh and Torfeh Ekhlasi, and grew into a psychological portrait of fear and paranoia surrounding domestic violence.