Crystal Globe Competition 2022 / Tabestan Ba Omid / Canada, Iran 2022
A young swimmer is training for the national championships with his new coach. But the alliance between the two young men elicits disapproval from the people around them. This social drama, set in northern Iran, is the second film by Sadaf Foroughi who, since her successful feature debut Ava, has continued to develop her distinctive visual narrative style.
Omid has an important swimming competition coming up. Unfortunately, he misses the application deadline and the only contest he can enter is the sea-racing event – but open water swimming is an entirely different discipline from competing in the pool. He thus seeks help from a new coach. Yet, as the two young men develop a close alliance, the people around them look on with disapproval. As in her previous film Ava, here Sadaf Foroughi also focuses on adolescent protagonists subjected to the critical eye of an authoritarian society seeking to control and regulate the lives of the younger generation. In Summer with Hope Foroughi further develops her distinctive style based on visual storytelling and, within the genre of social drama, presents an original, atypical cinematic work.
Sandra Hezinová
99 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Sadaf Foroughi
/ Screenplay Sadaf Foroughi
/ Dir. of Photography Amin Jafari
/ Music Soheil Peyghambari
/ Sound Serkan Koseoglu
/ Editor Kiarash Anvari
/ Art Director Sadaf Foroughi
/ Producer Sadaf Foroughi, Kiarash Anvari, Christina Piovesan
/ Production First Generation Films, Sweet Delight Pictures
/ Cast Leili Rashidi, Mehdi Ghorbani, Alireza Kamali, Benyamin Peyrovani
/ Contact Kathleen McInnis, First Generation Films
Sadaf Foroughi (1976, Tehran). Selected filmography: Ava (2017), Summer with Hope (Tabestan Ba Omid, 2022).
First Generation Films
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Kathleen McInnis
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Sadaf Foroughi
Film Director
Leili Rashidi
Actress
Kiarash Anvari
Producer
Kathleen McInnis
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