Tehranto

Nov 25, 2022

1h 23m

★ 6.0

Overview

In Toronto lively music, intricate textiles and vibrant colours paint an unlikely story of love and family when Badi and Sharon, two young students with very different upbringings from a divided Persian community, accidentally fall in love.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

1UTT Productions

Lucent

Nova 9 Pictures

Tehranto Trailers

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Cast

Badi Alavi

Sammy Azero

Sharon Moridi

Mo Zeighami

Narrator (voice)

Navid Negahban

Tessa Moridi

Mahsa Ghorbankarimi

Fred Moridi

Ali Badshah

Zahra Moridi

Niaz Salimi

Kim

Kathryn Davis

Arash Alavi

Elias Edraki

Jess

Sarah Camacho

Som

Farid Yazdani

Shohreh Alavi

Farshideh Nasrin

Rostam Alavi

Feraidoon Moradipour

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