Experience the vibrant world of Iranian cinema at the UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema, featuring some of the most acclaimed Iranian films of the year making their San Francisco premiere. Join us for a remarkable journey through stories that inspire, challenge, and captivate.
In Empty Nets, the rarefied but rough-and-tumble world of caviar smuggling is the milieu for writer-director Behrooz Karamizade’s feature debut. Amir and Narges are young and in love but that only means complications. She’s well-to-do with a father who demands a wealthy suitor. He’s working-class and newly unemployed. After finding work as a fisherman he’s determined to prove himself but shortcuts to quick cash prove too tempting as he feels Narges slipping away. Dramatic action on the Caspian Sea and in the back alleys of their coastal town makes this a particularly suspenseful critique of opportunity and tradition in Iran.
Director/Screenwriter: Behrooz Karamizade
Cast: Hamid Reza Abbasi, Sadaf Asgari, Keyvan Mohamadi
DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 101 min.
This program is presented alongside the exhibitions Nicky Nodjoumi: The Personal is Political and Nahid Hagigat: Etched in Time, on view at YBCA.
