DIRECTOR BABAK JALALI 

SCRIPT BABAK JALALI, AIDA AHADIANY

CAMERA NOAZ DESHE 

DESIGN LAURA LAHTI 

MUSIC MAHMOOD SCHRICKER 

CAST: MOHSEN NAMJOO, LARS ULRICH, SULYMAN QARDASH, SIDDIQUE AHMED, RABY ADIB, MOHAMMAD TALANI, BOSHRA DASTOURNEZHAD 

PRODUCERS MARJANEH MOGHIMI, TARANEH GOLOZAR

PRODUCTION BUTIMAR PRODUCTIONS

WORLD SALES 

REEL SUSPECTS

 

“Radio Dreams” follows an eccentric Iranian writer (Hamid) through his travails at a San Francisco based satellite radio station. Unable to realize his artistic dreams in his home country, Hamid immigrates to the U.S. to pursue his writing career. Instead, he winds up working at a third-rate radio station, seeking artistic satisfaction through esoteric programming he puts together for his small radio audience. Meanwhile, the owners of the station try to cash in on Hamid’s only program they see fit for commercial success – the bringing together of Afghanistan’s first rock band, Kabul Dreams, for an on-air jam session with their idols, Metallica.

BABAK JALALI

Born in 1978 in Northern Iran and has lived mainly in London since 1986. He received a Bachelors degree in Balkan/East European Studies and a Masters degree in Politics from UCL, University of London. He graduated with a Masters in filmmaking from the London Film School in 2005. His short film “Heydar, an Afghan in Tehran” (2005) was screened at 60 film festivals worldwide. He was elected as one of six residents at the Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation Residence in 2006-2007. In the Residence, he developed his first feature film titled “Frontier Blues” in 2009. The film premiered in Official Competition at the Locarno IFF, has gone on to screen at over thirty festivals worldwide and won the FIPRESCI award at the San Francisco IFF. “Radio Dreams” is his second feature film.