Summer with Hope

movie

Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.

Cast & crew

Leili Rashidi · Kiarash Anvari · Alireza Kamali · Milad Mirzaei · Sadaf Foroughi · Mahdi Ghorbani · Benyamin Peyrovani · Sanaz Najafi

Studios & networks

Bell Media · Canadian Film Centre · Crave · First Generation Films · Sweet Delight Pictures