Winner of the 2015 Ophir Award (Israel’s Academy Awards) for best picture, Baba Joon tells the story of a traditional Iranian family living on a turkey farm in southern Israel.
Almost entirely in Farsi, the film examines the generational conflicts between a dictatorial grandfather, his two sons, Yitzhak and Darius, and a grandson, Moti. Darius has escaped; Yitzhak runs the farm. To his father’s extreme displeasure, Moti wants nothing to do with it. Navid Negahban, a Muslim from Iran and Homeland’s Abu Nazir, plays Yitzhak.
Directed by Yuval Delshad, Israel, 2015, 91 min. Farsi, Hebrew with English subtitles. Houston Premiere. Drama.
Winner of the 2015 Ophir Award (Israel’s Academy Awards) for best picture, Baba Joon tells the story of a traditional Iranian family living on a turkey farm in southern Israel.
Almost entirely in Farsi, the film examines the generational conflicts between a dictatorial grandfather, his two sons, Yitzhak and Darius, and a grandson, Moti. Darius has escaped; Yitzhak runs the farm. To his father’s extreme displeasure, Moti wants nothing to do with it. Navid Negahban, a Muslim from Iran and Homeland’s Abu Nazir, plays Yitzhak.
Directed by Yuval Delshad, Israel, 2015, 91 min. Farsi, Hebrew with English subtitles. Houston Premiere. Drama.
Winner of the 2015 Ophir Award (Israel’s Academy Awards) for best picture, Baba Joon tells the story of a traditional Iranian family living on a turkey farm in southern Israel.
Almost entirely in Farsi, the film examines the generational conflicts between a dictatorial grandfather, his two sons, Yitzhak and Darius, and a grandson, Moti. Darius has escaped; Yitzhak runs the farm. To his father’s extreme displeasure, Moti wants nothing to do with it. Navid Negahban, a Muslim from Iran and Homeland’s Abu Nazir, plays Yitzhak.
Directed by Yuval Delshad, Israel, 2015, 91 min. Farsi, Hebrew with English subtitles. Houston Premiere. Drama.