Tired

Tired — Plot

It's 2004, and the news that Saddam Hussein has died sends shock waves through the Middle East. Shaho is the son of an elderly man of Iranian Kurdish heritage; the old man's health is failing him after suffering a stroke, and he's convinced he doesn't have long to live. Shaho, his father, and their family have been living in an Iraqi refugee camp for a while, but with the passing of Saddam, Shaho believes the time is right for them to return to Iran, where father can spend his last days in the land of his birth. However, as Shaho is making plans for the trip back to Iran, his cousin Sheelan visits the family for the first time in twenty years; her parents fled to Sweden when she was a child, where she's now a physician, and she wants her dying uncle to join her there where he'll be safe and well cared for.

• Release date
• February 17, 2010
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Ebrahim Saeedi

Tired — Cast

S

Shahab Fazili Shaho

M

Mahmoud Gli

A

Avesta Khalid Salah Shex Mohammedi Old Man on The Road Soran Ebrahim Injured Boy

R

Rozhan Hama Jaza Shilan

T

Tima Amiri Jamila

A

Abdal Shavkat Abdal