Iranian director Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi makes his feature debut with A Tale of Shemroon, depicting life in Tehran under a merciless regime that offers little hope for its youth. And while the story is not a happy one, it does show the optimism and resilience of Iran’s younger generation as they struggle for freedom, whether individual or collective.
The story centres on two brothers: Iman (Iman Sayad Borhani) is the naughty-but-nice older sibling. We meet him sneaking home at night, keyless and having to break into his own home. Watching him teeter on the rooftop, Tehran glimmering out of focus behind him, the scene sums Iman up without him having said a word: balancing precariously, locked out and hopefully with more lives than the cat he meets on the tiles. Shemroon is the suburb where the boys live – Tehran tantalisingly close, but frustratingly out of reach.
Inside the home are...
The story centres on two brothers: Iman (Iman Sayad Borhani) is the naughty-but-nice older sibling. We meet him sneaking home at night, keyless and having to break into his own home. Watching him teeter on the rooftop, Tehran glimmering out of focus behind him, the scene sums Iman up without him having said a word: balancing precariously, locked out and hopefully with more lives than the cat he meets on the tiles. Shemroon is the suburb where the boys live – Tehran tantalisingly close, but frustratingly out of reach.
Inside the home are...
- 11/18/2022
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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This familiar tale is transported to Iran’s Tehran in Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi’s debut, where Iman (Iman Sayad Borhani) is living with his younger brother Payar (Payar Allahyari) and their ailing father, with the trio coming to the death with the recent death of their mother. Dehkordi shows his abilities in the scripting of the brothers, who though having very different personalities - as brothers so often do on film - share a close bond that feels built on a life shared together. Payar is the more introverted and serious of the two, focusing most of his efforts on.
This familiar tale is transported to Iran’s Tehran in Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi’s debut, where Iman (Iman Sayad Borhani) is living with his younger brother Payar (Payar Allahyari) and their ailing father, with the trio coming to the death with the recent death of their mother. Dehkordi shows his abilities in the scripting of the brothers, who though having very different personalities - as brothers so often do on film - share a close bond that feels built on a life shared together. Payar is the more introverted and serious of the two, focusing most of his efforts on.
- 10/11/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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