Age 11+, coming of age drama
Based on the director’s own family and life, Any Day Now is the story of a 13-year-old Iranian boy, Ramin, and his family living in a refugee center in Finland. While the Mehdipours develop friendships with neighbors and in the wider Finnish community, Ramin enjoys the summer holidays while excited to start a new school--hopeful that he might learn some new skills, like how to ask out a girl. Each moment the Mehdipours enjoy together is precious; they do their best to live for the present. Their lives are defined by much more than their circumstances. But underlying the lighthearted adventures in this coming-of-age story is the family’s very real fear of deportation as they await news of their asylum application. As time progresses, uncertainty is a pervasive presence in this humanist, tender portrait of the realities of immigration and the experience of a family in waiting.
Director Biography
Born in 1979, Hamy Ramezan’s family fled Iran, lived in Yugoslav refugee camps, and then arrived in Finland in 1990. He directed the short films “Over the Fence” (2009), “Paratiisin avaimet” (2014), and “Listen” (2014) and the feature films Nordic Factory (2014) and Any Day Now (2020).