Central Cinema is pleased to present this timely political drama, condemned in its native Iran (its creator fled a prison sentence just ahead of the film’s Cannes premiere) but roundly celebrated elsewhere, including an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film.

Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman (Missagh Zareh) is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife and daughters.

“A mesmerisingly gripping and controlled parable-thriller in which the paranoia, misogyny and rage of the Iranian state are mapped seamlessly onto an ordinary family unit.” – Daily Telegraph

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