THE ENEMIES

DOSHMANAN

By Ali DERAKHSHANDEH

ARTHOUSE CINEMATHEQUE - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World

First film - Completed 2020

Suspicious Letters against a middle-aged woman are distributed in a small town, which accuses her of many crimes. We find out after some time she is sending the letters for revenge for her family.

    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • First film, Family, Drama
    • Countries
    • IRAN
    • Languages
    • FARSI
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ali DERAKHSHANDEH
    • Producer(s)
    • Majid BARZAGAR (Rainy Pictures)
    • Synopsis
    • 60-year-old Zohreh’s son is missing. Her husband has left her and she lives with her elderly, foul-mouthed mother and recently widowed and short-tempered daughter in the Ekbatan Housing Project. She has a beauty salon in her apartment and life I good until one day when suspicious letters begin to appear in mailboxes around the housing project that slander Zohreh’s character. Her life becomes a nightmare as problems begin to get worse. We soon find out that Zohreh herself is the author of these leaflets that she writes in order to get revenge on herself and others. It is a game where she loses everything but also wins everything back.