After the solid feature debut “Disappearance”, the young Iranian filmmaker (we were born in the same year, so I imagine we are still young!!!) Ali Asgari deals with the issue of the position of women in his country in his second film. “Until Tomorrow” or “Ta farda” in the original, had its premiere in the Panorama section of the festival in Berlin, and it is a social drama filmed in a naturalistic style with a hand-held camera. And that camera almost constantly follows Fereshteh (Sadaf Asgari is the director’s niece who also played the main role in his previous film), a young mother in serious trouble.
The action takes place there within 24 hours, and Fereshteh apparently came to Tehran to study from a smaller city, but instead of a diploma, she got a child. The guy who made her a daughter disappeared and she was left alone, and the problem is that she never told her parents that they became grandparents. But one morning, her father and mother inform her that they are coming to visit her that evening, and Fereshteh wants to keep his secret. The option of them finding out that she has a child out of wedlock and that she is a single mother is out of the question, so she will try to take the baby into someone’s custody for a day and hide all the baby’s belongings with someone. However, it will be much more difficult than it seems at first, because we will already see at the very beginning that almost no one wants to look after things, let alone a child, even for a few hours.
This young mother will find herself in a feverish race against time with her best friend Atefeh, who lives in a student dormitory, so she can’t take her child or things, she will try to find a solution. It is a film that brilliantly shows the complete insanity of the system there, imbued with fear, paranoia and the fact that practically no one wants to expose themselves and help someone even with such a relatively benign problem. What will people say is the main question that Fereshteh faces all the time, and this social hypocrisy will be best seen in meetings with unknown and known people, some of whom will try to take advantage of the awkward situation in which this young woman found herself. “Until Tomorrow” was another realistic and problematic modern Iranian drama that fits perfectly with the new wave in the country’s cinema that warns of countless absurdities and problems in Iranian society.