The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood

Year: 1990

Runtime: 65 mins

Language: Persian

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Drama

Across three eras—before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution—an anthropologist and his daughter live beside a river that watches. The daughter works in an emergency ward where suicidal patients arrive for reasons that shift with politics. One patient, seeking a reason to live, falls in love with her, linking hope to the nation’s turmoil.

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