DESTINY

Teenage Sahar, recently motherless, cares for her beloved and intellectually disabled father. Desperate for an education, she has to choose between staying with her father and going after a better future.
Sunday 26 March | Picture House | Doors 11:00 AM | Session 11:30 AM | End 1:15 PM
Director: Yaser Talebi | 2022 | Iran | 79 mins | 12A | Documentary | Persian with subtitles​ |
Q&A with Elaheh Nobakht (producer) and Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad (SOAS)
Co-presented by:
After the death of her mother, 18-year-old Sahar is left looking after her mentally disabled father in an isolated Iranian village. Sahar dreams of attending university and becoming a doctor, but extended family insist she play the role of caretaker unless her father remarries. Sahar does not want another woman to be pressured into this thankless task, even though it would release her. From the director of Hebden Bridge Film Festival 2021 favourite film Beloved, Yasir Talebi again shows his extraordinary skills as a documentary filmmaker as we join him in this warm and intimate portrait of a father and daughter.

PRAISE FOR DESTINY

​"Warm and intimate observational portrait"  — Ruth Somalo, Doc NYC

“Gender roles are examined in the warm documentary" — Joe Friar, Fort Worth Report