Iranian artist and filmmaker Shahab Fotouhi’s “Boomerang” has debuted an exclusive clip (below) following the film’s world premiere in Venice Days, an independent sidebar to the Venice Film Festival. In his tender drama, set in Tehran, old relationships break – like Sima’s marriage to Behzad – and new ones begin. Sometimes, by complete chance. As […]

Shahab Fotouhi’s debut feature “Boomerang” is a delightful, surprising portrait of modern Iran, but its biggest surprise is that Fotouhi is in his forties. His voice is the kind that feels not only fresh, but under-heard. He paints metropolitan Tehran with youthful verve, capturing — through loosely connected stories, a few non-sequiturs and even a […]