Summer with Hope

Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.

• Sadaf ForoughiDirector
• Sadaf ForoughiWriter
• Soheil PeyghambariOriginal Music Composer

• Leili RashidiMother
• Mahdi GhorbaniOmid
• Alireza KamaliSaadi
• Benyamin PeyrovaniMani
• Kiarash AnvariArash
• Milad MirzaeiKamran
• Sanaz NajafiMani's Wife