CFF-12A

About Elly (Darbareye Elly) 2009

  • Country Iran
  • Production Year 2009
  • Language Persian with English subtitles
  • Duration 119 minutes

A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Elly, an unmarried teacher, is invited by Sepideh, mother of one of her pupils, to travel with them. It is Sepideh's plan to introduce her to their recently divorced friend Ahmad, now living in Germany. The next morning, the two women go shopping in the town, but when Elly suddenly announces she has to return to Tehran, Sepideh urges her to stay, hiding her luggage. While the children are playing in the sea, one mother asks Elly to watch them. Out of the blue, Sepideh's daughter calls to some men on the beach to rescue one of the children from the water. The little boy is saved – but Elly has disappeared. What has happened to her? Has she simply returned to her mother in Tehran? Or has something far worse happened? Is she even alive?

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