Why did ifilm choose 'New Year Comes Home' for this weekend?

Persian New Year is around the corner in Iran and many other countries; you can get a sense of how the happy occasion is like in Iran by watching ‘New Year Comes Home'.

Just like the western cinema where movies such as ‘Home Alone’ and ‘A Christmas Story’ remind the audience of the New Year, Iranian cinemas have a great number of titles set just before or during the Persian New Year.

‘New Year Comes Home' is one of those classics chosen by ifilm to give you the chance to feel how a story set in the time around the new year takes place with an Iranian angle.

The common themes for the likes of  ‘New Year Comes Home' include honesty, helping the poor, rethinking behavior and happiness. Such notions may spur us to compare Iranian films for the Persian New Year with movies based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ novella by Charles Dickens.

A common element among all these movies for Christmas and the Persian New Year is that the directors of such titles do their level best to instill a good feeling in the audiences just like what this time around brings.

Wait till Saturday at 22:00 GMT to see one of these New Year’s movies.

Nowruz in Persian means "New-day" and marks the beginning of Spring in Iran and many other countries. This year, the Persian New Year ends on March 20, 2019.

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