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Until Tomorrow

Ali Asgari
DISTRIBUTION
Wed 13 Mar 24 - Sat 30 Mar 24

What if your parents come to visit unexpectedly, but they don't know you have a child? In a panic, Fereshteh, a young Iranian mother, sets out to find a babysitter who can look after her child and keep her secret. But that turns out to be no easy task in a society where everyone is constantly watching each other...

Fereshteh is a young Iranian mother. One day, she gets a call from her parents telling her they’re coming to visit. But what her parents don’t know is that their daughter has just had a baby. And Fereshteh would rather keep it that way, because the child was born out of wedlock—illegitimate in the eyes of the state, unacceptable in the eyes of her parents. 

Together with her friend Atefeh, she sets out to find someone willing to watch her baby for just one night. That’s not as easy as it seems, because in a society where everyone keeps an eye on everyone else, you have to be very careful about whom you ask for help. Fereshteh and Atefeh encounter various characters—some good, some bad, some dangerous. 

They are confronted with the harsh reality of life for young Iranians in an Islamic republic with which they do not identify. “Until Tomorrow” is a gripping and moving film that paints a critical portrait of Iranian society and the struggle of a younger generation to free themselves from oppression and hypocrisy.

direction
Ali Asgari
cast
Sadaf Asgari, Ghazal Shojaei, Amirreza Ranjbaran
duration
86 min
year
2022
country
Iran
language
Persian
Subtitles
French, Dutch

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Through its depiction of everyday struggles, “Until Tomorrow” portrays the resistance against the Iranian regime

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