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Rainy Seasons (2010)

Rainy Seasons poster
Original title
فصل باران های موسمی
Directed by
Majid Barzegar
Genre
drama
Country
Iran
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A sixteen-year-old boy named Sina is left alone in his apartment while his parents divorce. He is pressured by a local tough to repay a debt and lets a woman named Nahid stay with him temporarily.

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What happens

Rainy Seasons (Persian: فصل باران‌های موسمی, romanized: Fasl-e Bārān-hā-ye Mowsemi) is a 2010 Iranian film, directed by Majid Barzegar. Barzegar's directorial debut, it tells the story of sixteen-year-old Sina (Navid Layeghi Moghadam), who is left with an apartment to himself as his parents divorce. He finds himself in a difficult situation, hounded by neighborhood tough Masoud (Alireza Bagheri) to whom he owes money, as he allows Nahid (Marzieh Khoshtarash) to stay with him temporarily. The movie was originally conceived as a short film before being developed into a full-length feature. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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