Fireworks Wednesday (2006)

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Directed by Asghar Farhadi.

Starring Pantea Bahram, Taraneh Alidoosti, Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Hedye Tehrani, Sahar Dolatshahi, Matin Heydar-nia.

On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spending her first day at a new job, finds herself in the midst of a different kind of fireworks--an acrimonious domestic dispute between her new boss and his wife. ~tribecafilmfestival.org

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