There will be a live Q&A with director Hassan Nazer and Mark Kermode following the screening.

In a poor Iranian village, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statuette in the desert. As the authorities search for the lost treasure, sharing Yahya's passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Nasser Khan decides to help the children find its rightful owner.

A delightful film with truly winning performances from its young stars, Winners is homage to cinema, and to Iranian cinema in particular. Director Hassan Nazer says: "I wrote the script bearing in mind how films allow us to dare to dream, how cinema is a perfect escape. Casting non-professional children was my aim for Winners. As a young boy I grew up in Garmsar selling plastic to make money to buy and rent DVDs, to also escape from my own hardships. Those films kept me in a dream-like place ... I wanted to give voice to a silenced, unheard and under-represented minority. In Iran there are over one million Afghan refugees living in hardship, so I chose to make two of my main characters a widowed Afghan mother and her son (Yahya), to give them voice. "

In Persian with English subtitles.

Shetland Arts is grateful to Peter Parker for his support of this event.

Running time: 1h25 + 30m Q&A

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