A review from the Venice film festival covers Falling House, Mohsen Gharaei's domestic drama screening in the Orizzonti section, about an Iranian prison guard who imprisons his own family within their home. The film, starring Farhad Aslani as jailer Rashid Hafizhi, functions as a thinly veiled parable of life under the Islamic Republic, suggesting that everyone in Iran, guards and civilians alike, is confined in some form.

Rashid, falsely accused of aiding a jailbreak and facing eviction, reacts to his eldest daughter Ensi's plan to flee to Turkey for modelling work by locking up his wife and both daughters in turn. The reviewer praises the powerfully acted, socially realist film as robust and potent, noting it could be read either as anguished tragedy or absurdist black comedy, and contrasts it with director Gharaei's previous hit Without Everything, warning this new work may face a rockier reception in Iran.