Inversion

Nominee
Un Certain Regard ~ Avenir Prize
Cannes Film Festival
A thoughtful meditation on female agency in contemporary Tehran.
-- Amy Bowker, Little White Lies

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Inversion

Niloofar (Sahar Dolatshahi), a 35-year-old woman, is forced by her family to accompany her ailing mother in an exodus of Tehran when the air pollution in the city threatens her health, despite the fact that Niloofar is a successful business owner. Behnam Behzadi directed this family drama, which confronts the tradition of Iranian society and its views of women.

With fascinating insights into everyday life in Tehran, the film portrays the 'inversion" of a woman, and her mutiny against male domination.
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Runtime
84
Language
Farsi
Director
Behnam Behzadi
Cast
Sahar Dolatshahi
Awards:
Nominee, Un Certain Regard ~ Avenir Prize, Cannes Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter

The smog that envelopes the teeming metropolis of Tehran, graying out tall buildings and infecting people’s lungs, becomes an ominous sign of the times in veteran director Behnam Behzadi’s penetrating drama 'Inversion' ('Varoonegi.') Ostensibly referring to thermal inversion, a meteorological ...

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