Shemroon, north of Tehran - Iman and his younger brother, Payar, live together with their father. After the death of their mother, Iman seeks for a way out of an uprooted life. Thanks to his connections with the gilded youth of the city, he starts a business to make some quick profit. What seems at first an opportunity for a new beginning turns into a twisted cycle affecting the family’s destiny.
Born in Tehran in 1979, Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi lives and works between France and Iran. He has graduated from Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts where he developed an aesthetic combining cinema and contemporary art. He made two narrative shorts, Lower Heaven (2017) and Cavalière (2020), which were screened in numerous festivals (including TIFF, Clermont-Ferrand, FIFIB, Premiers Plans Angers, Winterthur, Mecal). Selected in development at La Fabrique
Cinémas in Cannes and at Ateliers Premiers Plans in Angers, A Tale of Shemroon is his first feature-film.