It’s a Dream

Director: Mahmoud Ghaffari, 2012, Iran, 97 minutes, Cast: Hadis Miramini, Elham Kerda, Mehdi Pourmosa, Behrang Alavi

Roya is a resourceful young single woman who is juggling with loans to pay back a large debt. With her gift of the gab and her determination to fight her way out, she finds herself at the top of a small ponzi scheme that promises to be lucrative, but social and sexual inequality throws a wrench in the works for this fighter. One can never shake off one’s shackles so easily.

Mahmood Ghaffari

Mahmood Ghaffari, born in 1976 in Tehran, entered the landscape of Iranian cinema with a dozen award-winning shorts, some of which received prizes from his home country. Very active on the Iranian television scene, in 2006 he produced two series, The Grey Game and The Admirers of Love. He collaborated with filmmakers Bahman Ghobadi and Asghar Fahradi, among others, before directing his first feature film, It’s a Dream.