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Heiran

OT: Heiraan

Shalizeh Arefpour // Iran, 2009
Fiction Feature // FF2009

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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.

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Heiraan

Fiction Feature

Farsi

Agenda 09//FF2009


Iran

2009

88 min

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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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