Good Bye (2011)
(Bé Omid É)
Directed by: Mohammad Rasoulof
“When you feel like a foreigner in your own country, it’s better to be a foreigner in a foreign country” says Noora (Leila Zare), a human rights lawyer whose licence to practice has been suspended, while her husband (a newspaper publisher whose newspaper has been shut down) is on the run from the police. She wants to leave Iran, and she’s been advised to get pregnant and give birth while abroad. But her husband is reluctant to leave, and now she fears her baby may be born with Down’s syndrome. Read more