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PROGRAMMERS NOTES
Teenage swimmer Omid - meaning "Hope" in Farsi - heads to the North of Iran alongside his single mother to pursue his dream of competing in a prestigious swimming competition. However, the main battle seems to be set outside the water, where Omid has to defeat the malicious community around him that tries to thwart his plans.
Coming to Reelworld from this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Grand Prix, Summer with Hope is the second installment of a planned trilogy by award-winning filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi whose 2017 feature debut, Ava, promised the emergence of an innovative voice in film. In Summer with Hope, she masterfully paints a spiteful conservative society on a widescreen canvas, where friendship comes with a heavy price, and youth freedom is taken hostage by the personal desires of those who consider themselves above the law.
Reza Sameni
Sadaf Foroughi
Director:
Sadaf Foroughi shot the first part of her planned trilogy Ava in 2017, which was awarded an honorable mention as the best Canadian first feature film and the Discovery section FIPRESCI prize at TIFF. It was also awarded the Best First Feature Film in the 2018 Canadian Screen Award. She made the second part of the trilogy SUMMER WITH HOPE in 2022 which won the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Grand Prix.
CAST & CREDITS
Director
Sadaf Foroughi
Producer
Christina Piovesan, Kiarash Anvari, Sadaf Foroughi and Justine Whyte
Cinematographer
Editor
Amin Jafari
Kiarash Anvari
Principal Cast
Leili Rashidi, Mehdi, Ghorbani, Alireza Kamali ,
Benyamin Peyrovani
Summer with Hope
Sadaf Foroughi
DRAMA | 108 MINS | PERSIAN | CANADA | CANADIAN PREMIERE
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