Radio Dreams

The film examines, with wit and patience, the hard work of community-building - and the toll on someone far from home.
-- Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

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Radio Dreams

Radio Dreams creates the odd yet very real world of PARS-FM - a Farsi-language radio station broadcasting from the heart of San Francisco. The story unfolds over a single day as the station’s program manager, Hamid - a brilliant, misunderstood Iranian writer (played by the “Iranian Bob Dylan” Mohsen Namjoo) - prepares for a triumphant broadcast - a live performance pairing Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan’s first rock band. Meanwhile, Hamid must juggle a dysfunctional mix of on-air talent, station managers, and performers while fending off the owner’s plans to wrest control of the station.

Radio Dreams brings to life the sometimes bizarre experience of immigrants pursuing dreams in theU.S. with a perfect mixture of honesty, art, and socio-political topicality served up in an ingenious, offbeat transmission.

Radio Dreams is the newest feature film from Iranian-British director Babak Jalali (Frontier Blues).
Not Rated
Genre
Comedy
Runtime
93
Language
Persian, English, Dari, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Director
Babak Jalali
FEATURED REVIEW
Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter

Contrasting wavelengths of humor and seriousness come through with impressive clarity in director/co-writer Babak Jalali's sophomore outing 'Radio Dreams.' An instant front-runner for Rotterdam's revamped Tiger Award after world-premiering at the Dutch festival, this blandly titled but affectingly ...

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