Summer with Hope

The story

Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.

Cast & crew

Leili RashidiMother

Mahdi Ghorbani

Mahdi GhorbaniOmid

Alireza KamaliSaadi

Benyamin Peyrovani

Benyamin PeyrovaniMani

Kiarash Anvari

Kiarash AnvariArash

Milad Mirzaei

Milad MirzaeiKamran

Sanaz Najafi

Sanaz NajafiMani's Wife