QIFF: Leila's Brothers
UK PREMIÈRE
Family drama
Forty year old Leila has spent her entire life ensuring the economic survival of her household but her father’s plans to becomes the patriarch of the extended clan threaten to wreck her plans. A film of simmering intensity where one woman’s efforts, against the odds, to keep the family afloat are always undermined by her male relatives obsessions with prestige and status.
Directed by Saeed Roustayi
Languages: Persian with English subtitles
Please note: under 18s will not be permitted to attend this screening.
‘Leila’s simmering rage…is the emotional energy that powers the movie…a great performance from Alidoosti, first among equals in a great ensemble cast.’