IRANIAN SPREAD (SOFREH IRANI) Asian New Classics

With IRANIAN SPREAD, veteran producer/ director Kianoosh Ayyari alchemizes a simple tale-the journey of a fake banknote into a powerful meditation on morality and Iranian culture.

Ayyari’s eighth feature follows the fate of a counterfeit 1,000 tomans note, as it moves across a divergent landscape of locales, relationships and social classes. As the bill enters and exits these dissimilar-often clashing-worlds, a universal view of our own daily moral life emerges.

Like the best of contemporary Iranian cinema, IRANIAN SPREAD tells its tale with the precision of a journalist and the touch of a poet.