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 the film In the Land of Brothers, directors Alireza Ghasemi and Raha Amirfazli tell a powerful story across three interconnected episodes of an Afghan refugee family’s generational struggle to make a home in Iran. Corrupt authorities, dehumanizing immigration laws and simply ironic twists of fate each take their toll. Nuanced and affecting performances from the largely non-professional cast and a piercing sense of trauma and injustice that never slips into the melodramatic contributed to Amirfazli and Ghasemi’s win for Best Directing in the World Cinema category at Sundance this year where their feature film debut made its world premiere.
Director/Screenwriter: Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazli
Cast: Hamideh Jafari, Bashir Nikzad, Mohammad Hosseini
DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 95 min.
This program is presented alongside the exhibitions Nicky Nodjoumi: The Personal is Political and Nahid Hagigat: Etched in Time, on view at YBCA.
