Completed - PERSIAN - Second film, Drama - 89 minutes
Azim, an afghan refugee, who works at the municipality at night, lives in Tehran along with his family. Being thehead of entire family, he has to choose between his own life and his mother’s whom he has alwaysclaimed as the most important one in his life ….
Year of production : 2018 Director(s) : Jamshid MAHMOUDI Writer(s) : Jamshid MAHMOUDI Cast : Mohsen TANABANDEH, Mojtaba PIRZADEH, Fatemeh HOSSEINI , Fereshteh HOSSEINI , Fatemeh MIRZAEI , Alireza OSTADI Producer(s) : Navid MAHMOUDI
Azim, an afghan refugee, who works at the municipality at night, lives in Tehran along with his family. Being the head of entire family and as the eldest brother, he arranges for his brother Faroogh, and his family along with their mother to be smuggled into Germany. But at the last moments Faroogh, shamefully makes his decision known to Azim that he’s not going to take their mother who is very attached to her grandchildren. Azim who feels lonely and is furious, accidentally finds out that his mother is in dire need of a kidney transplant, otherwise she’ll die in 2 months. During his search for a donor, he discovers that Iranians are not legally permitted to donate their organs to foreigners and he is the only donor although the doctor recommends him seriously not to do so. Now, he has to choose between his own life and his mother’s whom he has always claimed as the most important one in his life ….
Country(ies) : AFGHANISTAN, IRAN
Busan IFF 2018 (Kim Jiseok Award)