Joonam
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1h 43m
Directed by Sierra Urich | 100 mins | 2023
Sierra Urich has never been to Iran, nor can she speak Farsi. Her mother Mitra fled her native country in 1979, on the cusp of the revolution, eventually settling in rural Vermont. Mitra’s own mother followed 16 years later; still, she speaks very little English. Urich’s searching debut finds her piecing together a family history from which she is removed by geography, language, and the private traumas of her forebears.
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