Snow (2014)
Gênero : Família, Drama
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : Mehdi Rahmani
Sinopse
It is a crucial day in the home of the once affluent and respected, but now penniless, Vaziri family: they have to ward off debt collectors, delay foreclosure on their stately house, keep the lid tight on scandalous secrets, and hold on to the reputable image for long enough to honorably receive the long-awaited, moneyed suitor of their only daughter.
Duas pessoas travam uma disputa até às últimas conseqüências. De um lado está Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), jovem que sofre profunda depressão após ter sido abandonada pelo marido. Por um erro do governo, ela é expulsa da casa em que morava. Inconformada, contrata um advogado para recuperar o que ela acredita ser o último símbolo de sua sanidade. Do outro lado está Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley), imigrante iraniano que comprou a casa de Kathy em leilão, o que para ele é a oportunidade de dar conforto à mulher e ao filho e de recuperar o padrão de vida que tinham no Irã.
Simin deseja mudar-se para garantir um futuro melhor para a família, mas seu marido Nader não quer por causa do pai doente. Ela entra com um pedido de separação e Nader contrata Razieh para cuidar de seu pai enquanto trabalha. Certo dia ao voltar para casa encontra o pai sozinho, desmaiado e amarrado à cama; Razieh aparece e os dois discutem, na sequência Nader empurra a mulher e dias depois, é notificado que Razieh estava grávida e teria perdido o bebê. Os dois terão que resolver a situação na justiça, e tem pontos de vista muito diferentes do que aconteceu durante a briga.
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Após 30 anos terríveis de prisão, Sahel é libertado e descobre que Mina havia deixado o país para a Turquia, acreditando que o amado havia morrido. Um fantasma danificado dele mesmo, Sahel parte para Istambul em busca da mulher que ele ama, e sua viajem revela-se uma jornada através da escuridão de sua história. Tecida a partir de seus poemas, as palavras que seguem Sahel são a sua salvação e maldição ao mesmo tempo. Será que ele vai encontrar Mina? Será que eles vão aprender a viver de novo?
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Just a few hours to his wedding, Amir, a lad from the south of Tehran, receives a call from his closest friend Habib who insist on meeting him to speak about an urgent issue. He rushes to Habib's works place and there listens to Habib's devastating claim that his future wife is not the sexually innocent girl he believed. In a mixture of rage and bafflement, he takes the bride to the wedding place and then departs to reveal the truth about her past. At the same time, a guy named Nekooyi, the owner of a broken company gets stabbed by his friend who seems to have an affair with his wife, Nasim. To get to the airport and leave the country they take a taxi, driven by nobody but the guy sought by Amir...
Sete cidadãos de Teerã têm mais em comum do que apenas a cidade em que vivem: todos eles passam por situações como falta de dinheiro, desemprego, desentendimentos familiares e frustrações. Neste filme, vemos que o amor é o que lhes dá força e esperança para seguir adiante.
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