Hanif Soroori

The Old Bachelor

In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.

Rookery

The story goes through a busy single house where five young people are forced to live in difficult conditions. One of them is addicted and is leaving addiction. One is dumb. One has to study for university exams, which is not a conditional one. One lost his father's house and was stripped of a contract with a contractor. Now he has been housed with a broken leg, and the other, the Prophet, who is actually the main owner of the house, is a full-fledged exile who emigrated to Tehran to work. The sudden arrival of Rassoul's wife to Tehran drains the house from normal ...