Born in Iran

Directed by: Banafcheh Hejazi, Jeanne Pope
Length: 18 minutes
Category: Short
Country: Canada, Iran
Year of production: 2010
Screened in: 2012 Festival Cinema Invisible

Synopsis

This short concentrates on the problems of the Iranians residing abroad. It tells the story two friends travelling from Canada to the US to visit their grandmother. They are arrested by the border police, questioned, and their car confiscated with the excuse of fighting terrorism. It is a story most of us are familiar with: the hardship Iranians face in foreign countries because of the way Iranian government has behaved on international arena.