AVA

AVA, 2017

Iran, Canada, Qatar |DCP, Color, 102' |Farsi
Director: Sadaf Foroughi
Cast: Vahid Aghapoor, Parnian Akhtari, Sarah Alimardani

Ava is a high school student who lives a very programmatic life with her family in Tehran. One of Ava’s biggest passions is playing the violin, and like all teenagers, she enjoys spending time with her friends. Ava’s mother overreacts when she finds out that Ava is hanging out with a boy her age, and takes her to a gynecologist. Ava is unable to forget this traumatic experience, and when she learns about the “inappropriate” behaviors of her mother as a teenager, she begins to skip her violin lessons and starts acting out at school. As the boundaries set by her mother begin to get tighter and tighter, Ava’s rebellion and yearning for independence will also begin to grow exponentially.