Available in DC, Maryland, and Virginia from January 14–30
Stream it here: watch.eventive.org/ffi2022
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_paWTOKcRLY

Image courtesy of Strand Releasing

The latest film from Majid Majidi (Children of Heaven, The Color of Paradise) is the story of twelve-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located. Nicholas Barber of IndieWire calls it “quite the thrill ride, mixing a Dickensian, social-realist account of children in poverty in Tehran with a kinetic, far-fetched heist movie and a well-meaning drama about a kindly teacher.” (Dir.: Majid Majidi, Iran, 2020, 99 min., Persian with English subtitles)