Emotional Divorce

After screening for 12 weeks and taking in $720,000 at the box-office, ‘Under the Smoky Roof’ directed by Pouran Derakhshandeh is still on the screens at 8 cinemas in Iran. The movie, starring Farhad Aslani and Merila Zarei, deals with the social and emotional dilemma of divorce in Iranian culture, cinematicket.org reported. Behnoush Tabatabaee, Nafiseh Roshan, Hesam Navab-Safavi, Houshang Tavakoli, Maryam Boubani, Hadi Marzban, Fariba Motekhases, Azita Hajian and Shahram Haqiqatdoust are among the cast in the latest production of Iran’s renowned female director. It is showing at Kourosh, Azadi, Megamall and Mellat cineplexes and Bahman cinema.