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African Violet Premieres in North America

Aug 29, 2020
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If you are a fan of captivating human stories and stunning visuals, you do not want to miss the chance. For the first and a limited time, African Violet (in Persian: Banafsheh Afrighayi) will be screened online across North America. Directed by Mona Zandi Haghigh, the film receives a rating of 4 out of 4 by Film Festival Today:

The story begins simply enough, with a woman, Shokoo (Fatemah Motamed-Aria), discharging an older man from an assisted living facility and taking him back to her home. We initially assume he is her father, but then the reaction of her husband, Reza, adds the first note of confusion: he doesn’t want to speak to him and talks about the potential of lost honor if their neighbors find out. Is the man, whom she addresses formally as “Mr. Fereydoun,” her father-in-law, with an estranged relationship with his son? Compounding our uncertainty, Shokoo and Reza discuss what her children (i.e., not “their children”) have done and might do, and how they are responsible for placing Fereydoun in elder care. Truth is complicated in African Violet, the sophomore feature from Iranian director Mona Zandi Haghighi (On a Friday Afternoon), and the beauty in watching it is how we untangle the narrative from the slow flow of subtext percolating beneath the dialogue.

This is how JumpCut Online writes about the movie: "It may be a cliche, but film gives us the opportunity to travel the world and dip into lives vastly different from our own and discover our shared humanity. Having the chance to do that, especially now, when many of us are stuck at home, is a gift. As always, I will urge you to support smaller, independent films from voices that we don’t get to hear often. This colourful jewel of a film is well worth your time and money.... Apart from the performances and writing, the biggest strength of African Violet is the depth and detail in the world-building of the locations, sets, production design and costume design (set and costume design are both by Ali Abedini).”

You can now watch the movie online with your quarantine buddies or family by supporting your local theater, as half of the proceeds goes to your local theater that you choose to support. For a limited time you can enter https://watch.eventive.org/africanviolet [promotion code "Afrigha2020" HERE] for a special community discount. AFRICAN VIOLET is being released by New York based Venera Films, @VeneraFilms.

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