Atefeh Nikohl Boosheri , a 16 -year-old middle-class girl in Tehran, falls for a less-privileged classmate in this melodramatic debut from US-Iranian writ🅰er/director Maryam Keshavarz.

She offers a revealing portrait of an undergro൩und youth scene (in which Gus Van Sant’s is secretly dubbed into Farsi) but the twentysomething leads are too glamorous to convince as schoolgirls,ꦿ with some of the fantasy sequences verging on softcore porn.

There’s also a risible plot strand that sees Atafeh’s fundamentalist brother rigging u♈p the house with multiple surveillance cameras.