- With "Circumstance," writer-director Maryam Keshavarz offers a taboo-busting snapshot
- of contemporary Tehran � a provocative psychodrama that's part Iranian "Girls Gone Wild,"
- set just before the 2009 elections. Shireen (Sarah Kazemy) and Atefeh (Nikohl Boosheri)
- are beautiful teenage schoolmates attracted to each other � and to a host of things
- considered subversive in their repressive, male-dominated homeland; at night, the young
- women boldly doff their head scarves, slip into revealing dresses and then party away in
- an underground dance club.
Winner of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, CIRCUMSTANCE is a provocative
coming-of-age story that cracks open the hidden, underground world of Iranian youth culture
filled with sex, drugs and defiance. From newcomer Maryam Keshavarz, this suspenseful tale
of love and defiance unfolds as a wealthy family struggles to contain their teenage daughter�s
growing sexual rebellion and her brother�s dangerous obsession.
Format: DVD
Runtime: 107 minutes
Type: Romance / Drama
Language: In Farsi with English subtitles. Color
Type: Romance / Drama
Language: In Farsi with English subtitles. Color