iFilm English TV to air ‘Mom’s Guests’

iFilm English TV has been scheduled to air comedy movie ‘Mom’s Guests’ on Saturday night.

Directed by Dariush Mehrjouee and written by Houshang Moradi-Kermani, the film is based on a novel with the same title.

A brief synopsis of the flick reads, “In a poor Tehran neighborhood, Effat, who is the mother of two, faces a huge predicament as she has to prepare dinner for her guests having no money at the time. The social comedy reaches its climax when the neighbors, despite being poor, do their best by each giving out what they have to help Effat serve her guests a decent dinner.”

Golab Adineh, Amin Hayaee, Hassan Pourshirazi, Nasrin Moqanlou, Melika Sharifinia, Alireza Jafari, Farideh Sepah-Mansour, Parsa Pirouzfar and Zhaleh Olov are among the main cast members of the comedy.

The movie was nominated for nine awards at the 22nd edition of the Fajr Film Festival in Iran, where it won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Picture.

‘Mom’s Guests’, made in 2003, is scheduled to go on air at 22:00 GMT.

iFilm English TV will also repeat the movie the next day at 04:00, 10:00 and 16:00 (all GMT times).

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