The Old Bachelor

Section: Competition
Title: Pir Pesar
Director: Oktay Baraheni
Cast: Leyla Hatami, Hamed Behdad, Hasan Pourshirazi, Hajir Sam Ahmadi, Mohammad Valizadegan
Duration: 3h 12m
Country: Iran
Language: x_far
Year: 2024

In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while his youngest fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.