In The Land Of Brothers

Synopsis

In 2023, Iran sheltered 3.4 million refugees, making it the biggest host country for asylum seekers in the world. For decades now, the state has been welcoming refugees fleeing neighbouring Afghanistan – a “land of brothers”.

Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi’s feature debut looks at the lives of three Afghani refugees, all members of an extended family, and the repressions and ethnic discrimination they had to endure in Iran. Using a triptych structure and spanning two decades, this powerful Sundance Best Director Award-winning epic sheds light on the realities of migration in a region severely underrepresented on screen.