Peyman is a poet living in an old district of Tehran with his mother. Trapped by his drug addiction, poverty and a forbidden love affair, he tries to survive in spite of censorship, his delusions and increasing loneliness. His path to redemption will drive him through an imaginary world, where environmental destructions and a persisting state of emergency mirror contemporary Iran.
Bardia Yadegari (born in September 27, 1980, Kermanshah Iran) is an Iranian screenwriter and film director. He started to work in the Iranian film industry as an assistant sound recordist in 2001. Later he shifted his direction to writing and so far he has proven himself as a poet, screenwriter and director. While working as a researcher and screenwriter in different formats of filmmaking, Bardia published his first book in 2016. He has also written several articles for foreign journals like Guardian. Bardia’s poems never get the license to be published in Iran. During the past years Bardia has worked on several feature films, documentary and short films as a screenwriter and director with acclaimed Iranian filmmakers. In 2020, he acted and assisted in There Is No Evil by Mohammad Rasoulof which won The Golden Bear of the 70th Berlin Film Festival
Ehsan Mirhosseini (born in August 20, 1985 in Ahvaz, Iran) is an Iranian screenwriter and film director. Raising up in a middle-class family, he started studying cinema at Iranian Youth Cinema Society in Tehran. While working as a film critic in Iranian Cinema magazines and newspapers Ehsan made his first short film titled Picking the Grape in 2007. Since then he has worked on many film projects as a screenwriter and assistant director. In 2015, Ehsan decided to focus more on screenwriting with Bardia Yadegari, they wrote 4 screenplays and directed a short film titled Unlimited Internet (2017) which was in the official selection of Tehran International Short Film Festival in 2017. Ehsan experienced his first film as an actor in The Golden Bear winner film of 2020 Berlin Film Festival “There Is No Evil” directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. In 2020, Ehsan wrote and directed his debut film District Terminal with Bardia Yadegari.
