Using real stories from the filmmaker’s life, he and his Iranian co-writers Ila Firouzabad and Pirouz Nemati create a world ...

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Michael Shayan’s show, in which he plays his own mother as she celebrates the Iranian New Year, has much akin to stand-up comedy and I mean that as a compliment.

In a clever feat of playwriting, Toossi has devised a system to avoid supertitles: when the characters speak English, they have thick Iranian accents, but when they are ostensibly speaking Farsi ...

But when they’re meant to be speaking their native Farsi, they use the same unaccented ... The cast does fantastic and funny work as characters and relationships take shape during lessons ...

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By VOA Persian FILE - This undated photo of Pakhshan Azizi circulated on social media on July 24, 2024. The Iranian Kurdish civil activist has been sentenced to death.