cinematography
Faraz Fesharaki
editing
Alexandre Koberidze
Pouya Parsamagham
music
Panagiotis Mina

cast
Arash Naimian (Behzad)
Yas Farkhondeh (Minoo)
Leili Rashidi (Sima)
Ali Hanafian (Keyvan)
Shaghayegh Jodat (Sadaf)

producers
Luise Hauschild
Mariam Shatberashvili
co-producers
Majid Barzegar
Shahab Fotouhi
production
New Matter Films
co-productions
Rainy Pictures
Zohal Films

world sales
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Tired of her marriage to Behzad, Sima is looking for a new home for herself and her teenage daughter Minoo, without telling him. Meanwhile, Behzad is arranging a ‘chance’ meeting with his ex-girlfriend, in the hope of rekindling their intimacy, and is also unsuccessfully searching for a rare species of owl outside Tehran. For her part, Minoo casually takes the initiative at a traffic light and begins a flirt with Keyvan. As if by magic, she guesses his name and the two begin to share their innermost thoughts. Over the course of one week, Boomerang paints a sociological portrait of modern Tehran. As the marriage between two people from a seemingly hopeless and defeated generation comes to an end, a romance is budding between two young people who are discovering the city and its political realities in a new way.

2024 Boomerang

“I’m interested in a way of storytelling that is not an ‘and then, and then, and then’ form, but one in which the action is often interrupted by the act of reflecting on the story itself. Some of the narrative fragments in Boomerang are variations on the previous ones from a different point of view, or else retell the story of a fragment to a character who was absent at the time, just to see the reaction. The film invites the audience to be actively involved in putting together different types of pieces. The characters have been stripped of their background information, such as their jobs, family relationships, education, financial situation, etc., and the events do not have a clear cause-and-effect relationship; all these omissions serve to bring the narrative structure to the fore and to emphasize the details of tones and gestures.” (Shahab Fotouhi)

Shahab Fotouhi is an artist and filmmaker currently living and working in Tehran. Between 2008 and 2010, he studied fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. His exhibitions and video works have been shown worldwide in various prestigious institutions, including New Voices at the Barbican Centre, London, the 7th Taipei Biennale and 11th Istanbul Biennale, as well as Apeirophobia/Aporia at Human Resources, Los Angeles. His work Post Institutional Stress Disorder was shown at Kunsthal Aarhus. From 2010 to 2015, Fotouhi was co-founder and co-organiser of the artist initiative and collective Kaf in Tehran. In 2014, he was part of the artist residency program at the Queens Museum of Art in New York, and in 2015, he participated in the summer academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern. Boomerang is his first feature film.