As the old saw goes: You can’t know a woman unless you have walked a mile (or many) in her shoes. Softly echoing Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, in 316, a woman recalls her life in Iran, and we literally step into the shoes of those she holds most dear, journeying through the dramatic, rapidly shifting social and political terrain of late-20th- and 21st-century Iran. From the courtship of her youthful leftist parents through the tumult of the Iranian Revolution, her own rebellious upbringing, courtship, motherhood, and eventual solitude, our narrator takes stock of the things that matter the most, while fantasizing about other things she always wanted to do but knows she never will—like bungee jumping, shaving her head, or seeing Madonna in concert. Director Payman Haghani’s one-of-a-kind tribute to the comical, romantic, and sorrowful parade of days seamlessly melds archival footage with dramatic sequences, mingled with animation and anchored by a narrated life-story brimming with heart, “sole”…and shoes! WORLD PREMIERE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRANIAN FILM FESTIVAL