Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Ghaffarzadeh’s The Sea and the Flying Fish went on screen in the main competition section of the 37th Moscow International Film Festival held from June 19 to 26.
The social drama is about a teenage boy Ehsan who is a young, innocent deaf and dumb inmate of a correctional camp who communicates through painting. During his imprisonment he learns that his father has sold his sister to pay his debts. This makes Ehsan eager to break out of prison to save his sister.