Moeinoddin Jalali

About how the sudden and unexpected death of someone may become a start point of the new shared story of two young peoples.

A mosaic of stories explore Iranian modernity. Following a Persian literary model, personal dilemmas, fanciful speculations and historical motifs follow one another, establishing evocative correspondences between them. From the commitment with which the characters narrate events, it is clear that, beyond history, human time corresponds to myth and anecdote: mythological birds, misregistered surnames, scars from chemical weapons, and memories of deceased women.

After the death of their beloved son Vardan, who was serving as a soldier in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Rose and her husband Aksel decide to have a baby boy to keep the memory of Vardan alive. However, their teenage daughter Ani is against this idea, as she lives through grief of her brother's death in a completely different way.

It’s an ironic portrayal of Iran’s history by the inhabitants of the city of Isfahan, presented in four parts, and about the wind that sweeps everything away.

An Armenian film director location scouts for an upcoming film on the history of the movement of ideas and contagion along the ancient trade networks which connected the historic Armenian capital of Ani to the world. Along the way he encounters the complex geopolitical realities which impact the region.