The Descendants

An elderly father who teaches painting at a university in Iran deals with severe grief that his wife experiences after their son moves to Sweden and is not heard from for two months. The son, in his mid-twenties, had been studying in Greece, then informed his parents that he got a full scholarship to Sweden and is moving there. That’s the last time his parents heard from him.

The film is a personal and real exploration of the plight of immigrants away from home: they hope to find a better life, become successful so they can help their parents back home, and in the end they end up destitute and desperate, too ashamed to return home.