Naser Hashemi

When bipolar Khosrow is forced to live with his brother, Nasser, the two find themselves clashing over moral conflicts and complex family dynamics.

In his new virtuosic sleight-of-hand—completed shortly before his imprisonment in July 2022—Jafar Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, who has relocated to a rural border town in Iran to remotely direct a new film in nearby Turkey. While there, he finds himself thrust in the middle of a local scandal, confronting the opposing pulls of tradition and progress.