Summer with Hope
Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.
Cast: Leili Rashidi, Mahdi Ghorbani, Alireza Kamali
Summer with Hope
Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Producers
- Christina Piovesan, Justine Whyte, Kiarash Anvari, Sadaf Foroughi
