SCREENING AUGUST 19 & 21
About the Film
Writer-director and star, Ali Mosaffa weaves a clever and absorbing mystery of family history and political intrigue.
Rouzbeh (Mosaffa) arrives in Prague, far from his troubled family life in Tehran, to research his father’s past. Visiting the flat where his father, a communist expatriate, lived 50 years ago, in the times of Czechoslovakia, he is stopped by a policewoman investigating a recent accident. The current resident of the flat, Vladimir, who turns out to be Rouzbeh’s half-brother, has fallen out the window. Discovering hidden corners of Vladimir’s life and getting closer to his soul, Rouzbeh learns a shocking truth about his father, totally contradicting the image of a hero he held about him. This puts him on the path which led to Vladimir’s fall from the window.