From Afar (2006)
Overview
"From Afar" traces the malaise of a young artist and intellectual in three episodes: Book Burning, Breathing and Dawn. The Young protagonist lives in contemporary Tehran and he appears as a film student, an asthmatic businessman and a successful architect. In each story, he journeys toward a spiritual insight or emotion.
Cast
Koorosh Tahami
Omid / Mehran / Majid
Jamshid Hashempour
Sheikh / Painter / Father
Behnaz Jafari
Mehran's Wife
Homayoun Ershadi
Doctor
Mehdi Miami
Warrior
Dariush Arjmand
Professor
Mahbubeh Bayat
Mehran's Mother
Kamand Amirsoleimani
Majid's WifeRecommendations
The Young One
Mindwalk
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Farming
Inside I'm Dancing
Hardball
Skin
El Chicano
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Requiem for a Dream
1
Holy Lands
I Am Elizabeth Smart
The Nest
The Girl in the Book
3 Faces
Babylon
Seeds of Yesterday
Starving in Suburbia
Girl in the Box