Boomerang

Sima, tired of her marriage to Behzad, secretly searches for a new home for herself and her daughter Minoo. Meanwhile, Behzad tries to reconnect with an ex-girlfriend and searches for a rare owl outside Tehran. Minoo, on the other hand, begins a spontaneous flirtation with Keyvan, leading them to share their innermost thoughts. Over a week, the film captures a sociological snapshot of modern Tehran, depicting the end of a marriage from a disillusioned generation and the emergence of a young romance exploring the city and its political realities anew.

Shahab Fotouhi (b. 1980, Yazd, Iran) is an artist and filmmaker currently living and working in Tehran. Between 2008 and 2010 he studied fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. His exhibitions and video works have been shown worldwide in various prestigious institutions, including New Voices at the Barbican Centre, London, 7th Taipei Biennale and 11th Istanbul Biennale, Apeirophobia/Aporia at Human Resources, Los Angeles. His work Post Institutional Stress Disorder was shown at Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus. From 2010 to 2015, Fotouhi was co-founder and co-organiser of the artist initiative and collective Kaf in Tehran. In 2014 he was part of the artist residency programme at the Queens Museum of Art in New York, and in 2015 he participated in the summer academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern. Boomerang is his first feature film.