Atomic Heart

On the way home from a well-oiled party, Arineh and Nobahar stupidly crash their car. A strange man offers to pay the damage and refuses to be reimbursed. Instead he asks the two girls to follow him into the unknown. Very soon, while traveling through a nighttime Tehran full of mysteries and surprises, Arineh and Nobahar discover a parallel world of the unexpected, the existence of which they had never imagined.

“A genuine surprise through the sort of films we are unaccustomed to seeing in general, let alone Iran. The first is Ali Ahmadzadeh’s peculiar Atomic Heart, a film which begins with a duo of ambling, well-to-do young women as they return from a party. Inevitably, Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy and « Certified Copy spring to mind-only for Ahmadzadeh to take a sharp turn into philosophical sci-fi around the midway point, complete with multiple realities and Saddam Hussein.” ~ James Berclaz-Lewis, Indiewire

Festivals:
*-65th Berlin International Film Fest (Berlinale-Forum) 2015.
*-Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2015
*-Los Angeles Film Festival-Film Independent, USA. 2015
*-Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA. 2016