Asian Pop-Up Cinema | LIKE A FISH ON THE MOON | Iran

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Dornaz Hajiha

STARRING: Sepidar Tari, Shahdiyar Shakiba, Ali Ahmadi

FILM SOURCE: Asian Shadows

SYNOPSIS:

Haleh and her husband Amir struggle to cope with a tough situation: their four-year-old son Ilya has suddenly stopped talking. There is evidently no physiological cause, so they go to see a psychotherapist who comes up with a radical solution.

LIKE A FISH ON THE MOON is the debut feature of Director Dornaz Hajiha and gently explores the cracks that appear in a seemingly happy family in times of stress. This film won the Transilvania Trophy and Best Performance Award (for Sepidar Tari) at Transilvania IFF 2023.

“The Director never provides any convenient backstory of trauma or revealing flashbacks of family life. Instead, she immerses us in the struggle to deal with a world turned upside down and leaves the viewer to reach their own conclusions.” – Screen Daily Reviews

ABOUT ASIAN POP-UP CINEMA

Presented by Sophia’s Choice, Asian Pop-Up Cinema (亞洲躍動電影展) (APUC), is a bi-annual Asian film festival in Chicago, providing a platform for specially curated Asian films in their original languages with English subtitles.

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