No Prior Appointment

Behrooz Shoaibi / Iran

Screening

CaixaForum Barcelona

30-10-2023 / 18:30 h.

Film Information

Year: 2022

Duration: 120'

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

When Yasmin was six, the same age as her son, her family emigrated to Berlin. Now she must come back to Iran due to her father’s death. Her son is suffering from Autism, and it makes it difficult for her to travel easily. Traveling to Iran Yasmin who hardly knows her father is astonished to find out about the heritage left for her by her father. Her short and unwanted accommodation in her father’s hometown and meeting those who knew him leads her to comprehend human beings, life, and death in a new way.

Director

Born in 1979 in Mashhad, Behrooz Shoaibi has been active in different fields of cinema. As an actor, he started his career with Ebrahim Hatamikia’s The glass agency (1998) and gained critical and public attention with Homayoun Asadian’s Gold & Copper (2010). His TV movies and series include: The Sloe Garden (2005); Wings Of Hapiness (2008); Abandoned (2009); Somewhere Between Staying and Going (2010); and Secluded (2014). With his debut feature film, The Corridor, Shoaibi won the Best First Film award from Fajr 2013.