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“Inspired by a work by Ahmadreza Ahmadi with the same title”
This Persian filmed theater is the story of a child who, in loneliness, escapes the reality of parental neglect into a world of imagination. This marks the beginning of their imaginative mind's journey into the world of stars, a voyage through dreams.
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Released
Original Language
FA

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.