Iron Island
Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
Produced by Sheherazad Media International, Farabi Cinema
A contemplative portrait of a precarious floating community struggling against decay and social constraint, told through interconnected lives aboard a sinking ship.
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?
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