During the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan about 3 million Afghans, who were mostly illegal immigrants, entered Iran; causing numerous problems for the Iranian society to accept them. This film is the story of a 17 year old rural girl by the name of Mahi, who comes from a war-stricken family in the southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with an Afghan student named Heiran, who has come to their village to work. But Mahi's family being strictly against her marriage to an Afghan, forces Mahi to choose one between her family and an Afghan lad.
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BIOGRAPHYShalizeh Arefpour was born in Tehran in 1970. She is a cinema graduate from the Filmmaking Training Center. In 1990 she started her cinematic career as a script girl and ever since she has cooperated with many famous cinema and TV filmmakers in 26 movies as programmer, assistant director, scriptwriter and editor. She experienced her first filmmaking in the short film called "The Shadow of Moon" in 2004. She then made 3 documentaries "Under the Skin of Baran" in 2001, "Goal in the Dark" in 2003 and "Inside Me" in 2004. "Heiran" is her first feature film for which she is also the scriptwriter. |
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