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THE PERSIAN VERSION

• Director: Maryam Keshavarz
• USA / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 107’ / English, Persian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Maryam Keshavarz
• Director of Photography: André Jäger
• Editing: Abolfazl Talooni, Joanne Yarrow
• Music: Rostam Batmanglij
• Cast: Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Kamand Shafieisabet, Bijan Daneshmand, Bella Warda, Chiara Stella, Tom Byrne, Shervin Alenabi
• Producer: Anne Carey, Ben Howe, Luca Borghese, Maryam Keshavarz, Peter Block, Cory Neal
• Production Co.: Stage 6 Films, Marakesh Films, Archer Gray Production, AGX, A Bigger Boat
• World Sales: Sony Pictures Classics

2023 Sundance Audience Award–U.S. Dramatic, Screenwriting Award
2023 Calgary Audience Choice

Culture clashes, generation gap, young love, belonging, and youthful protest... all in their Persian version. The brilliant sensation in Sundance where it won two awards, The Persian Version is a sentimental and hilarious roller-coaster full of blasting colour, pop music, the joys and sorrows of life, tragedies intertwined with miracles, seen through the eyes of a young Iranian-American filmmaker named Leila. Striving to find balance and embracing her opposing cultures, Leila boldly challenges the labels society is so quick to project upon her.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.