The Home

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The Home  (Iran, 2017)

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Writer-director Asghar Yousefinejad knocks us off emotional balance right from the start of his debut feature with a grieving daughter’s explosive protests over the fate of her father’s corpse.  Yousefinejad ratchets things up from there, confining the action to follow to the dead man’s home, where a parade of suddenly interested parties intervene, and what begins as a family drama, reveals itself as a sharp satire in which everyone’s motives become suspect.  Winner of best film and best screenplay in the international competition at the Fajr Film Festival.

DCP, color, in Azeri with English subtitles, 78 min.  Distribution: Iranian Independents.  Director/Screenwriter: Asghar Yousefinejad.  Cinematographer: Hamid Mehrafrouz.  Editor: Amir Etminan.  Cast: Ramin Riazi, Mohadeseh Heyrat, Gholamreza Bagheri, Sedigheh Daryani.