IFFA: Empty Nets at Yatala Drive-In
IFFA: Empty Nets
SUN 17 DEC
Coming Soon to
Yatala Drive-In
Screening at the 11th Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA 2023).
Twenty-somethings Amir and Narges have found what feels like true love in their hometown by the coast of the Caspian sea. But in today’s Iran, that’s far from enough to build a life together, and they are forced to keep the relationship secret. To win over Narges’ upper-class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir needs money, and he needs it fast. As Amir’s values are compromised by the illegal underworld, can their love, hopes, and dreams survive the tightly-knit web of tradition, corruption, and social hierarchy that continues to rule over the lives of a new generation in Iran?
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Twenty-somethings Amir and Narges have found what feels like true love in their hometown by the coast of the Caspian sea. But in today’s Iran, that’s far from enough to build a life together, and they are forced to keep the relationship secret. To win over Narges’ upper-class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir needs money, and he needs it fast. As Amir’s values are compromised by the illegal underworld, can their love, hopes, and dreams survive the tightly-knit web of tradition, corruption, and social hierarchy that continues to rule over the lives of a new generation in Iran?
Screening at the 11th Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA 2023).
Twenty-somethings Amir and Narges have found what feels like true love in their hometown by the coast of the Caspian sea. But in today’s Iran, that’s far from enough to build a life together, and they are forced to keep the relationship secret. To win over Narges’ upper-class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir needs money, and he needs it fast. As Amir’s values are compromised by the illegal underworld, can their love, hopes, and dreams survive the tightly-knit web of tradition, corruption, and social hierarchy that continues to rule over the lives of a new generation in Iran?
Twenty-somethings Amir and Narges have found what feels like true love in their hometown by the coast of the Caspian sea. But in today’s Iran, that’s far from enough to build a life together, and they are forced to keep the relationship secret. To win over Narges’ upper-class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir needs money, and he needs it fast. As Amir’s values are compromised by the illegal underworld, can their love, hopes, and dreams survive the tightly-knit web of tradition, corruption, and social hierarchy that continues to rule over the lives of a new generation in Iran?
IFFA: Empty Nets
SUN 17 DEC
Coming Soon to
Yatala Drive-In
Screening at the 11th Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA 2023).
Twenty-somethings Amir and Narges have found what feels like true love in their hometown by the coast of the Caspian sea. But in today’s Iran, that’s far from enough to build a life together, and they are forced to keep the relationship secret. To win over Narges’ upper-class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir needs money, and he needs it fast. As Amir’s values are compromised by the illegal underworld, can their love, hopes, and dreams survive the tightly-knit web of tradition, corruption, and social hierarchy that continues to rule over the lives of a new generation in Iran?
