A personal narrative documentary that follows its creator, Sohrab Kavir, battling survivor’s guilt after the deaths of three of his brothers. Upon his return to Iran, he embarks upon an epic quest to form a virtual football team made up of young sufferers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - the same disease that took his brothers.
Director: Sorhab Kavir
Directors Bio:
Sohrab Kavir is a Iranian-British writer/director making his industry debut with "Duchenne Boys", his first feature documentary. He studied cinematography and screenwriting with the Iranian Youth Cinema Institute before moving to the UK in 2003. He completed a BA in Digital Film Production at London Southbank University (2009) followed by an MA in Filmmaking at the London Film School (2015). Sohrab and his wife Nastaran (producer) moved to Stroud in February this year.
"A film of truly magnificent auteurship that will leave you alive and trembling.” Robyn Pete
"Duchenne Boys" is the first feature documentary by Sohrab Kavir, a young British-Iranian filmmaker and the founder of "Duchenne Boys", an online platform. Sohrab grew up in a family where Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a male-specific muscle-wasting disease, took the lives of his three brothers. Riddled by guilt about his survival, Kavir felt compelled to try to improve the lives of Duchenne sufferers specially the ones in Persia.
On his journey of discovery Kavir meets Matin, a young British-Iranian with Duchenne disease, who plays power wheelchair-football in the English Powerchair League. Matin inspires Kavir to attempt the seemingly impossible - to create an Iranian football team from boys with Duchenne and organise an international match with Matin's team from England. But this will be no ordinary Powerchair match. Two teams of wheelchair- bound players will face each other online - in the first ever international cyber football match. For Kavir it becomes a remarkable act of self redemption.
"Duchenne Boys" was edited by the award winning Hayedeh Safirai who previously edited the Oscar-winning "A Separation (2012)" and the Oscar-winning "The Salesman (2017)".
"Duchenne Boys" is a candid and highly personal film about and duchenne boys and Persia, whose story offers hope and inspiration to sufferers of a disease about which the director, Sohrab Kavir, knows only too much.
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