Caught a screening of Baran (which means Rain in Farsi) last night. It is the story of an Iranian boy who falls for an Afghan girl and I thought it was a sweet film, but definitely not for the masses because it is a little bit on the slow side. The friend I took with me thought it was the most boring film he had ever seen.
I like seeing different cultures and was noticing the differences between the Iranians and the Afghans and got a kick out of the parallels between the illegal Afghan workers scattering when the inspectors made a surprise visit, just like illegal workers do when the INS makes raids in the US.
If you aren’t big into subtitled films, at least it isn’t dialogue heavy so there isn’t too much to read.