Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

Facing Mirrors

Aynehaye Rooberoo

آینه‌های روبرو

With in person.

Fri, May 11 @ 8:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Director

Negar Azarbeyjani

Year

2011

Run Time

98

min

Country

Iran

Language

Persian

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.

This film is presented in Persian with English subtitles.

Rana and Adineh, two women of very different backgrounds and social class are accidentally brought together to share a journey. Rana, inexperienced, religious and bound by traditions, is forced to drive a cab in order to survive f inancially. Adineh, wealthy yet rebellious, has escaped from her home. Along the way, Rana begins to understand that her passenger is a transsexual who is planning on having an operation. For Rana, comprehending and accepting such a reality is close to impossible and tantamount to abandoning everything she was raised to believe. (Description courtesy of the Montreal World Film Festival.)

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