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World, Northern Hemisphere
Jahan, Nimkoreh-e Shomali
VERDICT: Hossein Tehrani’s gently melancholy first feature about poor farm laborers, which won Tokyo’s Asian Future competition, reveals a strong new Iranian voice.
Set in the 1980’s in the aftermath of Iran’s drawn-out war with Iraq, World, Northern Hemisphere