As in his acclaimed Taxi Tehran, director Panahi is behind the wheel and in front of the camera, blending fact and fiction to darkly comic effect. An actress friend has received a worrying video from a young girl desperate to attend drama school, and the pair drive into Iran’s conservative countryside to find out if she is safe. Far beyond their metropolitan bubble, they witness the precarious situation of these villagers – especially the local women – whose stultifying way of life has hardly changed for hundreds of years.
Persian with English subtitles.

2018 | Dir Jafar Pahani | 100min | Iran