SIFF ‘26 Capsule Review: ‘THE FRIEND’S HOUSE IS HERE’ Exhumes Tehran’s Underground Art Scene
The Friend’s House is Here, written, directed, and produced by Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei, is a slice-of-life Iranian drama following two close friends navigating Tehran’s underground art world, where they risk staging performances featuring women without hijabs or dancing ever-so-slightly provocatively on social media, in defiance of state censorship. The film is an intimate,...