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Two former university classmates and friends, one Iranian and one Romanian, are writing letters to each other. Each reflecting on the events they go through between two revolutions that forever changed their lives and societies.
Maria and Zahra, two women from Romania and Iran, become friends during their medical studies in Bucharest. Bound by the same dreams and hopes, they kept each other's secrets. In 1978, before her final year at the university, Zahra went home to Iran during her summer holiday and never returned to finish her studies. The 1979 Iranian Revolution kept them apart, but their friendship endured in their letters to each other. Trapped between the fear of the present, the longing for change and the hope for a different future, they see in each other's reflection the dreams they once had. Composed entirely of archives, most of them never before seen, this film is a story about two women's friendship, hope and utopia.

Credits

Director
Vlad Petri
Screenwriter
Vlad Petri, Lavinia Braniște
Producer
Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Oliver Sertić
Production Company
Activ Docs
Cast
Director: Vlad Petri Producer: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan Screenwriter: Vlad Petri & Lavinia Braniște Editor: Cătălin Cristuțiu Cast: Ofelia Popii & Elena Purea

About the Director

Vlad Petri
Vlad Petri is a film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and producer. After graduating from Cinematography at the University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, he undertook a MA degree in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie University in Berlin. Petri has worked as a cinematographer, photographer, film tutor and festival selector. In recent years he has focused on film directing, being part
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