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  • 2017
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2017
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 16 m
Starless Dreams

Summary Starless Dreams plunges us into the lives of young teenage girls sharing temporary quarters at a juvenile detention center on the outskirts of Tehran. Director Mehrdad Oskouei, one of Iran’s most prominent filmmakers, spent seven years securing access to this all-female facility. As the New Year approaches, the girls bond, and reveal—wit...

Directed By: Mehrdad Oskouei

Written By: Mehrdad Oskouei

  • 2017
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2017
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 16 m

Starless Dreams

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Summary Starless Dreams plunges us into the lives of young teenage girls sharing temporary quarters at a juvenile detention center on the outskirts of Tehran. Director Mehrdad Oskouei, one of Iran’s most prominent filmmakers, spent seven years securing access to this all-female facility. As the New Year approaches, the girls bond, and reveal—wit...

Directed By: Mehrdad Oskouei

Written By: Mehrdad Oskouei

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Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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100
Jan 17, 2017
[A] brilliant documentary.
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100
Jan 17, 2017
Starless Dreams is a fascinating and humane view of the marginalised and forgotten. The girls' voices rise as a startlingly powerful chorus, questioning, challenging and demanding we listen.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW
90
Jan 19, 2017
The world needs to see this spare, revelatory film and hear these girls' pained and sometimes proud confessions.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
90
Jan 17, 2017
With the conceptual rigor and emotional directness associated with the best of Iranian cinema, Oskouei simply listens to the stories of those who have never been listened to before. Their shattering testimony, elegantly harmonized in a chorus of stolen childhood, has universal appeal.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 17, 2017
Starless Dreams (Royahaye Dame Sobh), shot in a juvenile correctional facility for girls under the age of 18, is the perfect example of how powerful simplicity can be, when it’s underpinned by compassion for its subject.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 17, 2017
Mehrdad Oskouei avoids sentimentalizing the girls or tritely lamenting their stolen innocence.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 19, 2017
If Starless Dreams inspires conflicted feelings in viewers, it may be by design. It’s hard not to want to flee, and it’s hard to look away.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Oskouei Film Production
Release Date Jan 20, 2017
Duration 1 h 16 m
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Website http://www.dreamlabfilms.com/starless-dreams/
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Awards

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cronograf Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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