If you stay open for a long time, maybe your worries go away? ” , Oskar says to his sister Lily, his eldest who would like to tell him that "yes" , everything will be fine for them. This is of course not the case. Yet the tone of this second film by Iranian director Arash T. Riahi, a mixture of insolence, daring and poetry, is given. The two Chechen children have lived in Vienna, Austria for six years, but are about to be expelled by the police. Their asylum request was refused.
Desperate, their mother makes a suicide attempt and is interned. The brother and sister are placed in different foster families and keep finding each other. With sensitivity, Arash T. Riahi recounts their chaotic journey. Without Manichaeism or pathos. As for his previous film, For a moment, freedom , in which Iranian refugees were trying to reach Europe, the 47-year-old filmmaker talks about what is close to his heart: exile, identity and freedom. Himself fled
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