District Terminal

Peyman is a poet living in an old district of Tehran with his mother. Trapped by his drug addiction, poverty and a forbidden love affair, he tries to survive in spite of censorship, his delusions and increasing loneliness. His path to redemption will drive him through an imaginary world, where environmental destructions and a persisting state of emergency mirror contemporary Iran.

Drawing on Iran’s current reality but set in a dystopian future, District Terminal is a unique, political and allegorical film. It is also an autobiographical work – the filmmakers shot the film in their homes and neighborhood, casting friends and family to play characters drawn from their real-life experiences. 

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