Heiran
OT: Heiraan
Shalizeh Arefpour // Iran, 2009
Fiction Feature // FF2009
Story
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, born in 1970, director, writer. Her films include the short"The Shadow of the Moon" an the documentaries "Under the Skin of Rain" (2004), "The Flower in the Dark" (2004) and "Inside Me" (2004). "Heiran" is her first feature film.Trailer
Info
Heiraan
Fiction Feature
Farsi
Agenda 09//FF2009
Iran
2009
88 min
OV
Shalizeh Arefpour
Shalizeh Arefpour, Naghmeh Samini
Baran Kosari, Mehrdad Sedighian, Khosro Shakibaei, Farhad Aslani
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Jahangir Kosari
Hossein Jafarian
Sepideh Abdolvahab
Alireza Kohan Deyri
Amir Esbati
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