6 AM
Genre
Thriller
Running time
87 minutes
Year
2024
Language
Farsi
Subtitle
English and Arabic
Country
Iran and Turkey
Director
Mehran Modiri
Bio
Producer
Ali Oji
Cast
Samira Hassanpour, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mona Farjad, Mansour Nasiri, Tinoo Salehi, Saeed Zarei, Khayyam Vaghar Kashani, Mohammad Heidari, Mehran Modiri
Scriptwriter
Mehran Modiri
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Sarah is leaving Teheran for three years to study for her doctorate in Canada. Her flight is at 6 am. After an emotionally fraught final dinner with her family, she heads to an impromptu farewell party at her friend Farida’s apartment, intending to go straight to the airport afterwards. That plan implodes, however, when the morality police swoop in. Drinks are emptied, musical instruments hidden and women put on their overcoats, while Sarah is seized with terror that they will all be arrested – and she, of course, will miss her plane. Mehran Modiri, Iran’s popular satirist, who also has a chilling cameo as a police hostage negotiator, proves here that he is just as at home with a nail-biting drama.
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