After years of living in exile from Iran, Maryam installs CCTV cameras in her family’s Tehran home and creates a lifeline to the parents she left behind.
Watched through surveillance feeds from thousands of miles away, the everyday rhythms of her parents' lives take on new meaning, each small moment charged with longing and distance. Layering CCTV footage with archive material and poetic voiceover, Past Future Continuous captures a family navigating life across borders while Iran's political reality presses in around them. This is a story about what it costs to live separated from the people you love most, and what it means to hold on to home when home is somewhere you can no longer be.
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Director Morteza Ahmadvand , Firouzeh Khosrovani
Year 2026
Duration
1h 16m
Language Farsi with English subtitles