Summer with Hope

2022· 99 min★ 5.9· Drama

Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.

Cast: Leili Rashidi, Mahdi Ghorbani, Alireza Kamali

Director: Sadaf Foroughi