Sasha Nathwani is a UK-based director of award-winning short films, of Iranian and Indian heritage, stepping up here to his feature debut. It opens the Generation strand in Berlin and is a sweet-natured, heartfelt and earnestly acted film; a little precious maybe, but saved from emo-sentimentalism by irreverent humour and a wittily self-aware final image of his leading actor's face.
Malcolm appears to accept with shrugging good grace everyone joking that he is on the verge of mega-riches. But Ziba is to be the witness of a desperately humiliating moment in Malcolm's life and a shocking, intimate moment between him and his mum.
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