by Mohammad Rasoulof (2009, 92 min., video)
n this imaginative tale, Rahmat sails a small boat around Lake Urmia hoping to collect the tears of the mourning and sorrowful. Rahmat claims he can turn these tears into pearls and make people’s unhappiness disappear. In his voyage he meets a daughter is punished for refusing an arranged marriage and a man is jailed for a colorful painting. Rasoulof’s film challenges the nature of contemporary Iranian society’s notions of misogyny, religious zealotry, and the place of the family within an ever-globalizing world.
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