Ava (2017)

Original title

آوا

Directed by

Sadaf Foroughi

Genre

drama film

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

14A

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl in Tehran struggles with the strict rules of her family and school. She tries to find her own identity while dealing with her mother's constant supervision.

tenseintrospectiveslow-burnmelancholicconfinedquietly defiantemotionally layeredgrowing unease

What happens

Ava (Persian: آوا) is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film directed and written by Sadaf Foroughi. The Persian-language film screened for the first time in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Discovery Prize and received an Honourable Mention for Best Canadian First Feature Film. In December, TIFF named the film on its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian films. The film received eight Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Foroughi), Best Actress (Mahour Jabbari) and Best Supporting Actress (Bahar Noohian). It was named as the winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature on 31 January 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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