Iran, France, Netherlands, 2024, 95 mins.
DIRECTOR: Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazli
WITH: Hamideh Jafari, Bashir Nikzad, Mohammad Hosseini
In 2023, Iran sheltered 3.4 million refugees, making it the biggest host country for asylum seekers in the world. For decades now, the state has been welcoming refugees fleeing neighbouring Afghanistan – a “land of brothers”.
Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi’s feature debut looks at the lives of three Aghani refugees, all members of an extended family, and the repressions and ethnic discrimination they had to endure in Iran. Using a triptych structure and spanning two decades, this powerful Sundance Best Director Award-winning epic sheds light on the realities of migration in a region severely underrepresented on screen.
"Deft storytelling and assured filmmaking." Murtada Elfadl, Variety
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