Ava (Iran)

A teen with a love for music finds herself questioning authority when she feels her privacy is violated in this Iran drama.

"In Tehran, upper-middle-class teen Ava abides by a strict routine of school, violin lessons, and curfew. When Ava's mistrustful and overprotective mother questions her relationship with a boy — going so far as to consult a gynecologist — Ava is stunned by this violation of privacy. Her tightly controlled environment exacerbates feelings of suffocation and isolation, and further diminishes her trust in the adults who attempt to regulate her life. That her parents, including her sympathetic but powerless father, seem more concerned with social optics than their daughter's welfare only escalates Ava's rebellious behaviour, to life-altering effect." (Toronto International Film Festival)

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