The Persian Version
Winner of the Audience Award at Sundance, this joyous crowd-pleaser follows an Iranian-American woman as she explores love, sex, pregnancy… and what her family vocally thinks about all three.
We meet filmmaker Leila (Layla Mohammadi) – “too Iranian in America, too American in Iran”– wearing a niqab and revealing tankini as she attends a Halloween party in New York. Recently split from her wife, she hooks up with actor Max at the party, and soon enough discovers that she’s pregnant. The only daughter in a family of an extraordinary number of sons, Leila now has to take on her disapproving mother Shireen (Niousha Noor) and contemplate motherhood. But this unusual turn of events leads Leila to a new understanding of her mother’s singular journey from Iran to America. A decades-spanning epic, inspired by true events, The Persian Version is an inventive, hilarious and moving tribute to Iranian women. 
- Program Strand
- Late Announce
- Year
- 2022
- Classification
- Unclassified 18+
- Country
- USA
- Language
- In English and Persian with English subtitles
- Director
- Maryam Keshavarz
- Producer
- Maryam Keshavarz, Anne Carey, Ben Howe, Luca Borghese, Peter Block, Cory Neal
- Cast
- Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Kamand Shafieisabet
- Screenwriter
- Maryam Keshavarz
- Cinematographer
- André Jäger
- Editor
- Abolfazl Talooni, JoAnne Yarrow
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- Women Directors, Middle East, Comedies, Focus on Women, Late Announce
