Empty Heaven Filmography
A Film By: Abdolreza Kahani
In Canada, a group of Iranian regime agents possess a valuable industrial component stolen to bypass international sanctions. As protests in Iran push the government toward collapse and communication with Tehran disappears, they decide to secretly sell the part. Unable to move freely under surveillance, they hire Saeed, a naive man searching for a “pure” wife. Believing he is being kindly sent to meet women, Saeed unknowingly becomes the intermediary in their desperate scheme…
A film by: Abdolreza Kahani
EIFF – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026
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EIFF (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
Abdolreza Kahani (A Shrine, Mortician, winner of The Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, EIFF 2025) returns to EIFF once more with a confidently and cleverly crafted character study. When a lonely Iranian dissident becomes embroiled with a local criminal mob in Canada, their bullish bidding leads to complex turns of events. Clean, inventive cinematography and beautifully calibrated performances set against frosty Canadian snowscapes, this is a crisp, lean and dry-humoured thriller rich in thematic depth that once again demonstrates Kahani’s mastery of cinema. – Emma Boa
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