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community in

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, who meet and fall in love despite the disapproval of their family and friends.Joe Belanger
"Londoner Faran Moradi coming home for screening of first feature film"
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'', November 24, 2022. The cast also includes

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, Mahsa Ghorbankarimi, Ali Badshah, Niaz Salimi, Elias Edraki, Farid Yazdani, Sarah Camacho, Kathryn Davis, Farshideh Nasrin, Feraidoon Moradipour,

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, Travis Nelson, Venus Razzaghi, Dan Abramovici,

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and Sahba Kian. The film premiered as the opening film of the 2022

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. It was later screened at the Ottawa Canadian Film Festival, where it won the Audience Favourite award, and at the

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, where it won the award for Best Feature Narrative: Drama. The film received two

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nominations at the

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( Keenan Lynch) and Best Editing (Moradi).Charles-Henri Ramond
"Écrans canadiens – Viking,13 nominations"
''Films du Québec'', February 22, 2023.

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* 2022 films 2022 romantic comedy-drama films Canadian romantic comedy-drama films 2020s English-language films 2020s Canadian films English-language Canadian films 2022 directorial debut films English-language romantic comedy-drama films {{2020s-Canada-film-stub