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Hard Shell (2024)
Directed by Majid-Reza Mostafavi
Overview
Leila, a young and talented tightrope walker, was banned from performing by the authorities. Since then, she has been working in her father’s old circus. Samir is a teenager who falls in love with Leila and, instead of going to school, spends his days at the circus. At the same time, as political and economic problems in Iran deepen, the boy’s father, Siamak, after many years of working in different jobs, gets a job as a foreman on a small donkey farm. When the animals start to disappear, he comes across terrible secrets and a web of corruption.
Length 112 minutes
Actors
Mehdi Hossein Nia | Payman Maadi | Mehran Ghafoorian | Hanieh Tavassoli | Fereshteh Hosseini | Masoud Keramti | Mohammad Shakeri | Shirin Zabetian