During the reign of the Taliban, around three million Afghanis fled to Iran as illegal immigrants. They are still not been integrated there today. When 17-year old Mahi falls in love with the Afghani student Heiran, her family puts up fierce resistance, and she must decide between them and Heiran. Documentarist Shalizeh Arefpour’s feature film debut is simultaneously a love story and a portrait of society; a sensitive account of an unaccepted love that resists all prejudice.

Director: Shalizeh Arefpour

Screenplay: Shalizeh Arefpour, Naghmeh Samini

Cast: Baran Kosari, Mehrdad Sedighian, Khosro Shakibaei, Farhad Aslani

Producer: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Jahangir Kosari

Orig. Titel: Heiraan
Section: Agenda 09
Original language: Farsi
Filmtype: Fiction Feature
Music: Alireza Kohan Deyri
DoP: Hossein Jafarian
Set Designer: Amir Esbati
Editor: Sepideh Abdolvahab
Format: 35 mm

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Production Company: Cinema 79 Co.