Ava

2014, 100 minutes

In her search for fulfillment, Ava enters a world where the broken, the desperate and the hopeful become her clientele.

Based on a true story, Ava is a psychological thriller that charts the life of a London-based Iranian writer. In her search for contentment to her self-destructive lifestyle, Ava gets involved in the covert world of human smuggling. The relationship with her Policeman husband deteriorates as her involvement deepens in this lucrative yet lethal trade. Jumping from Tehran to Southampton via Istanbul, the film explores the tragedies of illegal migration and displacement. Stories of discrimination, homophobia and rape lurk under the surface of these tableaux, where Ava's increasing instability punctuates a kaleidoscopic picture of her terrible ambivalence about her job.

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