Here Without Me (2011)

Original title

اینجا بدون من

Directed by

Bahram Tavakoli

Genre

drama film

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother and her two adult children live together, each lost in their own unfulfilled dreams. The film follows their quiet struggles and hidden desires as they navigate their cramped life.

melancholicintimatecontemplativedreamlikebittersweetslow-burnpoignantfamily-centered

What happens

Here Without Me (Persian: اینجا بدون من) is an Iranian drama film written and directed by Bahram Tavakoli and produced by Saeed Sadi, produced in 2010 and screened in 2011. The film stars Fatemeh Motamed-Aria, Saber Abar, Negar Javaherian and Parsa Pirouzfar. The story is about a family of three dreaming about their wishes, and was inspired by the play The Glass Menagerie, written by Tennessee Williams. Fatemeh Motamed-Arya won the best actress award in the 35th Montreal World Film Festival for this film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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