Djomeh is a young Afghan man who has come to live in Iran because of family trouble. Working as a milk boy, he encounters discrimination from the Iranian villagers and disdain from Habib, a fellow Afghani to whose trust Djomeh was given. The only person who shows any friendliness to him is his employer, who Djomeh asks to intercede for him in asking a woman from the village for her hand in marriage.
Direction
Yektapanah's unblinking long takes that refuse to flinch
Acting
Nazari's wordless suffering, a performance of withheld tears
Cinematography
Dusty Iranian highlands as silent antagonist
Director
Hassan Yektapanah
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during a period when Iran hosted 1.4 million undocumented Afghan refugees, often exploited as invisible labor.
The milk delivery route becomes a map of social hierarchy—each house a test of who sees Djomeh as human.
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