Summer with Hope

Summer with Hope (Persian: تابستان با امید, romanized: tabastan ba amid) is a 2022 Canadian-Iranian drama film, directed, written and co-produced by Sadaf Foroughi.^[1] The film premiered on July 7, 2022 at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Summer with Hope
Theatrical release poster
Persian	Tabestan Ba Omid
Directed by	Sadaf Foroughi
Written by	Sadaf Foroughi
Produced by	Sadaf Foroughi Kiarash Anvari Christina Piovesan
Starring	Mehdi Ghorbani Leili Rashidi Benyamin Peyrovani Alireza Kamali
Cinematography	Amin Jafari
Edited by	Kiarash Anvari
Music by	Soheil Peyghambari
Production companies	First Generation Films Sweet Delight Pictures
Release date	July 7, 2022 (2022-07-07) (KVIFF)
Running time	99 minutes
Countries	Canada Iran
Language	Persian

Premise

Omid is a teenaged athlete who is barred from a swimming competition for bureaucratic reasons; however, as his estranged father has made a divorce from his mother (Leili Rashidi) conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open water under the coaching of Mani (Benyamin Peyrovani). Their increasingly close friendship leads to community rumours and allegations that they are in a gay relationship.^[2]

Release

The film premiered on July 7, 2022 at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,^[3] where it won the Crystal Globe for Best Feature Film.^[4]

Awards

The film received three Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for Best Motion Picture, Best Supporting Performance in a Film (Rashidi) and Best Original Screenplay (Foroughi).^[5]