Between Dreams and Hope

A trans man and his partner travel to a remote Iranian village to face his estranged father and obtain documents that would permit them to live authentically, in visionary director Farnoosh Samadi’s bold queer love story.

Cast

Fereshteh Hosseini

as Azad

Sadaf Asgari

as Nora

Hooman Rahnemoon

Amirreza Ranjbaran

Reza Amouzad

Kiarash Rezaei

Amir Reza Jokar

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