A Respectable Family (Yek Khanévadéh-e Mohtaram)

• Director: Massoud Bakhshi
• Writer: Massoud Bakhshi
• Cast: Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mehran Ahmadi, Ahoo Kheradmand, Parivash Nazarieh
• Language: French, Persian
• Theatrical Release Date: Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2012

Synopsis: Arash is an Iranian academic who lives in the West. He returns to Iran to teach in Chiraz, a city far from Tehran where his mother lives. Drawn into a series of domestic and financial dramas, he is reminded of the hardships of his childhood at the start of the Iran-Iraq War in 1981. Following the death of his father and the discovery of what his « respectable family » has become, he is obliged to make choices. [Synopsis courtesy of Cannes - Directors' Fortnight 2012]