Directed by Abbas Amini
2023
Iran, Czech Republic
110 minutes
Ahmad is an exiled teacher living in a small poor village with mostly ethnic Baloch along the Iranian border with Afghanistan. He acquaints a family of illegal Hazara refugees who are fleeing an immediate threat from the Taliban’s rise to power. Soon after Ahmad begins to realise that prejudice and dogma are dictating all of their lives and his perspective on what is right and what is wrong changes drastically. He decides to save a young forbidden love but that decision can have dire consequences for everyone.
Credits
Director: Abbas Amini
Writer: Abbas Amini, Hossein Farrokhzad
Cinematographer: Saman Lotfian
Production Designer: Maziar Mirhadizadeh
Composer: Atena Eshtiaghi
Editor: Haideh Safiyari
Sound Designer: Mehrshad Malakouti
Cast
Pouria Rahimi Sam
Hamed Alipour
Naser Sajjadi Hosseini
Behafarid Ghaffarian
Ghalem Sakhi Nazari
Latife Zousefi
Houtak Balouch
Mino Sharifi