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Completed - PERSIAN - Social issues, Thriller, Drama - 112 minutes

Log Line

Samir, a teenager, fell in love with Leila who used to be a tightrope walker in circus but she’s banned performing due to the authorities’ order. Siamak, Samir’s father, is a foreman of a donkey farm who finds out the donkeys are missing and then he finds out terrible secrets of corruption.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2024 (Debut)
Full history

Year of production : 2024

Director(s) : Majid-Reza MOSTAFAVI
Writer(s) : Mahyar HAMIDIAN, Majid-reza MOSTAFAVI
Cast : Payman MAADI, Mehran GHAFOURIAN, Hanieh TAVASOLI, Fereshteh HOSSEINI, Masoud KARAMATI, Mehdi HOSSEINI NIA, Mohammad SHAKERI

Producer(s) : Majid-reza MOSTAFAVI

Synopsis

Leila who is a young talented tightrope walker, has been banned from performing due to the threat of fanatics, extremists and religious government people to close the circus just because of her artistic movements during her performance in tightrope walking and the way she dresses, and since then she has become a clown in an old circus owned by her father. Samir who is a teenage boy, has fallen in love with Leila and instead of going to school, he wanders away from his parents and roams the circus.
At the same time as the political and economic problems in Iran rises day by day ; Siamak who is Samir's father and he is an calm and honest hardworking person , after many years of working in different jobs, has just starts working as a foreman in a donkey breeding farm and he has dream of owning a roadside restaurant…

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Country(ies) : IRAN


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