Part of Bijou Film Board's Horizons series.
FREE for UI students (present student ID at box office) and $6.50 for the general public.

"Unquestioned patriarchal tradition and desperate responses to its oppressive power are dramatized in the Iranian director Jafar Panahi's sly and defiant metafictional road movie."- New Yorker

"Panahi solidifies his artistic handle on this unjust situation by inventing new ways to work around it and remains, more than ever, an effortless blender of documentary and fiction through mystifying methods." - RogerEbert.com

"The story is streamlined, simple and elegant, but the plot is thickly layered." - New York Times

Well known actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught by a provincial girl’s video plea for help--oppressed by her family to not pursue her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help solve the mystery of the young girl’s troubles. They travel by car to the rural northwest where they have amusing encounters with the charming folk of the girl’s mountain village. But the city visitors soon discover that the protection of age-old traditions is as generous as local hospitality…