The Persian Connection

2016 • 101 minutes

About this movie

As a child soldier, Behrouz miraculously survived the Iran-Iraq War to life on the streets of Los Angeles. After two decades under a ruthless Iranian mobster, Behrouz leaves the underworld to follow his American Dream. But after a chance encounter involving a high-stakes poker game, he is brought back into the life he left behind. With the help of his Russian girlfriend Oksana, he must hunt down some missing drugs belonging to his ex boss as events from his past and present clash spiralling out of control. PERSIAN CONNECTION is an electric neon-noir fever dream set in the Persian opium underworld of Los Angeles.