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Title Heiran / directed by Shalizeh Arefpour
Published Honolulu, HI : Asia Pacific Films, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (86 min.))
Series Asian film online
Summary During the Taliban rule in Afghanistan (1996 to 2001) about 3 million Afghans, mostly illegal immigrants, entered Iran. This film is the story of a 17 year old rural girl, Mahi, who comes from a war-stricken family in southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with an Afghan student named Heiran, who has come to her village to work. Mahi's family is strictly against her marriage to an Afghan. Mahi must now choose between her family and her love for the Afghan student, Heiran. The Director uses real footage of illegal immigrants and refugee camps to depict how Afghans are being treated, and mirrors this with the treatment of women in Iran
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed August 6, 2013)
Awards: Best Film at Tunis International Film Festival in 2009; New Talent Award at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival in 2009
This edition in Farsi, western (Persian) with English subtitles
Nominated 2009 Dubai International Film Festival, Muhr AsiaAfrica Award, Best Film, Feature
Won 2009 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, New Talent Award
Won 2009 Tunis International Film Festival, Best Film
Subject Love -- Drama.
Marriage -- Drama
Noncitizens -- Drama
Illegal immigration -- Drama
Noncitizens
Illegal immigration
Emigration and immigration
Love
Marriage
SUBJECT Iran -- Emigration and immigration
Afghanistan -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Afghanistan
Iran
Genre/Form Drama
Feature films
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Arefpour, Shalizeh, film director, screenwriter
Aslani, Farhad, 1966- actor.
Kosari, Baran, 1985- actor.
Sameti, Zhaleh, actor.